MindStream - Pavel Somov

Pattern Interruption Non-News has no informational value, just potential experiential value. [Food-for-thought, by definition, comes with indigestion. If food-for-thought goes down easy, it's not food-for-thought but just brain-candy.]

I write this freely, unafraid of self-contradiction. And I encourage you to read this blog with the same attitude of interpretive freedom.

Walt Whitman: Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large: I contain multitudes.

Confusion* is enlightenment [of sorts].

confusion = letting go of the known + stepping into the unknown = openness of mind

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Jul252009

Nabokov's "The Eye" is a Neti-Neti Search for the "I"

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Thoughts on Nabokov's novel "The Eye."

"Kashmarin had borne away yet another image of Smurov. Does it make any difference which? For I (Smurov) do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases." The "Eye" is a search for the “I,” a neti-neti ("I am not this, not this") search for Self, Nabokov style.

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

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