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Stan K-Bootle: Bravo Carolyn: but ruling out google and wiki would surely end scholarly research as we know it today ;=)
Warning: this email contains more than the recommended daily allowance of irony.
JM: Google and Wiki are invaluable tools but I learned it the hard way that any clue has to be double-checked against a traditional dic or book.
In one of my new (unimproved) programs I learned that wikipedia and google are in conflict!
Nabokov-admirers shouldn't let what wiki offers about "Bend Sinister" to sit quietly on-line without adding their little contribution to it. There is a warning, and it shows how to proceed:
"This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2008)"
Below are two links and a plot summary (with no reference to Olga, to David...to the novel's "beating heart."
Bend Sinister (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1st edition cover. Bend Sinister is a 1947 dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov. .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_Sinister...
Plot summary wapedia.mobi/en/Bend_Sinister_(novel) This book takes place in a fictitious European nation known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism," which discourages the idea of anyone being any different from anyone else, and promotes the state as the prominent good in society. This government is led by a man named Paduk and his "Party of the Average Man." As it happens, the world-renowned philosopher Adam Krug was in his youth a classmate of Paduk, at which period he had bullied him and referred to him disparagingly as "the Toad." Paduk arrests many of the people opposing his Ekiwilist philosophy, including many of Krug's friends, and attempts to get the influential Professor Krug to promote the state philosophy to help stomp out dissent and increase his personal prestige.He makes an offer to Krug, but Krug refuses outright, and the idea that nothing has changed in their plans, and makes an offer to allow Krug to personally kill those responsible. He swears at the officials and is locked in a large prison cell. Another offer is made to Krug to free 24 opponents of Ekwilism, including many of his friends, in exchange for doing so. But by this time he has largely gone mad, and at the first opportunity he rushes Paduk and is killed.
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/
Warning: this email contains more than the recommended daily allowance of irony.
JM: Google and Wiki are invaluable tools but I learned it the hard way that any clue has to be double-checked against a traditional dic or book.
In one of my new (unimproved) programs I learned that wikipedia and google are in conflict!
Nabokov-admirers shouldn't let what wiki offers about "Bend Sinister" to sit quietly on-line without adding their little contribution to it. There is a warning, and it shows how to proceed:
"This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2008)"
Below are two links and a plot summary (with no reference to Olga, to David...to the novel's "beating heart."
Bend Sinister (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1st edition cover. Bend Sinister is a 1947 dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov. .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_Sinister...
Plot summary wapedia.mobi/en/Bend_Sinister_(novel) This book takes place in a fictitious European nation known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism," which discourages the idea of anyone being any different from anyone else, and promotes the state as the prominent good in society. This government is led by a man named Paduk and his "Party of the Average Man." As it happens, the world-renowned philosopher Adam Krug was in his youth a classmate of Paduk, at which period he had bullied him and referred to him disparagingly as "the Toad." Paduk arrests many of the people opposing his Ekiwilist philosophy, including many of Krug's friends, and attempts to get the influential Professor Krug to promote the state philosophy to help stomp out dissent and increase his personal prestige.He makes an offer to Krug, but Krug refuses outright, and the idea that nothing has changed in their plans, and makes an offer to allow Krug to personally kill those responsible. He swears at the officials and is locked in a large prison cell. Another offer is made to Krug to free 24 opponents of Ekwilism, including many of his friends, in exchange for doing so. But by this time he has largely gone mad, and at the first opportunity he rushes Paduk and is killed.
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/
