From: Jeffrey Epstein [email protected]> To:' Subject: Re: sending me back to N Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:25:33 +0000 > the reflectivity of the lake would be emergent. but i don;t think niagra falls will change the ride to maid of the reflectivity. , though it sounds more muse , ech ,like On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:21 AM, David Gelemter <M Ila> wrote: His ear is unfailingly amazing. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Jeevacation [email protected]> wrote: Yes but inthe gift she feats the dripping as a foreign tongue with it's impenetrable rythm Sent from my iPhone On Dec 10, 2009, at 9:54 AM, David Gelemter > wrote: Lolita's central young-love scene is on the beach (the girl hopping on one leg as she gets back into her panties is unforgettable, brilliant, pure N), & Spk Memory has the dog-on-the-beach where he finally remembers (in narrative realtime) the name of the girl's dog (Floss?--I think); but beach sounds vs tub- sounds don't seem to interest him-- (& after all he moved to Switzerland, where yr permanently protected from the sound of waves). On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Jeffrey Epstein Gjeevacation®gmail.com> wrote: yes , in the gift he talks about the conversation had by the babble of water in the tub On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:29 AM, David Gelemter < wrote: Int: the best thing about the Arabs & the Japanese is their gardens. (Tho admittedly arabic calligraphy can be beautiful; Jap too, to a point.) Yet France produced few great portrait painters: Clouet; Degas was the greatest. but no french durer or van eyck or holbein or velazquez or goya or titian. (Evidently Veazquez was of Jewish converso descent. Recently las meninas topped the charts in some sort of survey as "greatest easel pntng"--& the only good reason to be in madrid.) What I want out of water, tho, is sound: the New Engl brook (we have a small one in our back yard, which babbles only now & then); & the ocean's transcendentally beautiful noise. On Thu, De