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going back and forth across those wires.
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So, if Pynchon gives us the pattern of meaning,
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rather than meaning itself in this novel,
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he also gives us a vision of what it means to embody that pattern.
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This is very different from Nabokov's idea of embodiment
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as a kind of alternate or rival creativity.
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Remember, I argued that Lolita has a dead child,
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and she dies in childbirth, in a way, because it's a kind of creativity
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that Nabokov wants to cancel, or that Humbert wants to cancel.
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In this novel, it's not a rival creativity.
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It's what creativity has to be, in the literary sense.
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Now, Pynchon was a student of Nabokov for a couple of years