Picnic comma lightning : the experience of reality in the twenty-first century /
In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert offers a memorably brief account of his parents' death, 'picnic, lightning.' Picnic Comma Lightning, too, opens with death, that of Laurence Scott's mother, because, for a philosopher, death raises a profound existential question...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The life fantastic
- Bedtime stories
- The end of things
- Optical disillusions
- Double vision
- Backstage pass
- Romance languages
- Fellow-feeling
- Bolts from the blue
- Final fantasies.