Pnin Condition:Good Strike is a war veteran

Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray

In Whitehead's ingenious conception

a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life

mortality -- you will find all of these themes here

and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent

Pnin Condition:Good Strike is a war veteranProfessor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber room as office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master. Wry,