> Do this, John: Give us an example of what you hope to find when > you successfully pursue access to Emily's deciding?
I'll get back to you in this tomorrow, but meanwhile I'll give you an example of what Nabokov did find when he successfully pursued access to Flaubert's deciding: "I want to draw attention to Flaubert's use of the word 'and' preceded by a semicolon. This 'semicolon-and' comes after an enumeration of actions or states or objects; then the semicolon creates a pause and the 'and' proceeds to round up the paragraph, to introduce a culminating image, or a vivid detail, descriptive, poetic, melancholy, or amusing." He then quotes several instances of this technique at work in "Bovary", and goes on to enumerate several other comparable techniques in the book.
