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SIGNS: Clarification on "beach plum"
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Jerry Friedman responds to Sandy Drescher:
-- On Fri, 5/2/08, Alexander Drescher <alexander@MUSICWOODSFARM.COM> wrote:
[I wrote]
> > On another point, what's the story with
> "beech plum"? Alexander
> > Dolinin says all editions have "beech", but
> Sandy Drescher says
> > (also at Zembla) that the /New Yorker/ had the
> "correct" beach.
> > Which account is right? And if Nabokov had meant the
> spelling
> > error (which as Sandy Drescher said is consistent with
> "spelled
> > out"), would he really not have included a note
> directing the
> > magazine not to correct it?
> >
> > Was beach-plum jelly really available in the U.S. in
> those days?
>
> Yes, according to the Beechnut Company archives.
"Beechnut"--that's odd.
> Gerber made only baby foods.
Why do you mention Gerber?
> VN was not able to "direct" his editors. [See J.
> Morris, "Signs and
> Symbols and Signs" The Nabokovian, 32: [Spring] 1994,
> pp. 24-28.] In
> addition to the title and "beach" other
> "corrections" by the New
> Yorker were consolidating two paragraphs in Part 3 and
> omitting the Arabic numeral headings.
Maybe I was unclear. I would think that if an author wanted
to misspell a word in the narration, he would include a note
to the editors not to "correct" it. I wonder whether Nabokov
tried that but was ignored, or whether he didn't try. I
doubt he'd think to ask them not to change the title or
combine two paragraphs.
> The New Yorker, May 15, 1948 p33. "Symbols and
> Signs":
Thank you for the image! It's good to get that cleared up.
Jerry Friedman
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-- On Fri, 5/2/08, Alexander Drescher <alexander@MUSICWOODSFARM.COM> wrote:
[I wrote]
> > On another point, what's the story with
> "beech plum"? Alexander
> > Dolinin says all editions have "beech", but
> Sandy Drescher says
> > (also at Zembla) that the /New Yorker/ had the
> "correct" beach.
> > Which account is right? And if Nabokov had meant the
> spelling
> > error (which as Sandy Drescher said is consistent with
> "spelled
> > out"), would he really not have included a note
> directing the
> > magazine not to correct it?
> >
> > Was beach-plum jelly really available in the U.S. in
> those days?
>
> Yes, according to the Beechnut Company archives.
"Beechnut"--that's odd.
> Gerber made only baby foods.
Why do you mention Gerber?
> VN was not able to "direct" his editors. [See J.
> Morris, "Signs and
> Symbols and Signs" The Nabokovian, 32: [Spring] 1994,
> pp. 24-28.] In
> addition to the title and "beach" other
> "corrections" by the New
> Yorker were consolidating two paragraphs in Part 3 and
> omitting the Arabic numeral headings.
Maybe I was unclear. I would think that if an author wanted
to misspell a word in the narration, he would include a note
to the editors not to "correct" it. I wonder whether Nabokov
tried that but was ignored, or whether he didn't try. I
doubt he'd think to ask them not to change the title or
combine two paragraphs.
> The New Yorker, May 15, 1948 p33. "Symbols and
> Signs":
Thank you for the image! It's good to get that cleared up.
Jerry Friedman
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