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Please note that VN said "symbols" and SKB is speaking of "allusions",
which, I need hardly point out, are two quite different things.
A. Bouazza
>BB then adds (parenthetically!) VN's verdict:
'Nabokov noted that "90% of her symbols were not fathered by me."
Even if the only 'true' allusions were those consciously intended
by VN (which is hard to accept for one so polymythic), his warning
should
not deter the sheer FUN of driving DRUNK or SOBER! A good reason for my
conclusion: VN did NOT (to the best of my knowledge) list the 10% of PF
allusions to which he claimed PATERNITY. Absent such precious data, the
HUNT
must continue!
Stan Kelly-Bootle
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which, I need hardly point out, are two quite different things.
A. Bouazza
>BB then adds (parenthetically!) VN's verdict:
'Nabokov noted that "90% of her symbols were not fathered by me."
Even if the only 'true' allusions were those consciously intended
by VN (which is hard to accept for one so polymythic), his warning
should
not deter the sheer FUN of driving DRUNK or SOBER! A good reason for my
conclusion: VN did NOT (to the best of my knowledge) list the 10% of PF
allusions to which he claimed PATERNITY. Absent such precious data, the
HUNT
must continue!
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
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