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Date: Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:12 PM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Re: Introductory notes to TT-7 (query: Bellino's article)
Dear Don,
I am sorry to hear that the Fleischer film was so boring (as I had expected)
and I do appreciate your watching it malgre vous for us (especially me).
Thank you for your kind words. I am very glad that the TT reading has been
stimulating.
Best,
Akiko
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
To: "Akiko Nakata" <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: Introductory notes to TT-7 (query: Bellino's article)
> Dear Akiko,
> I confess I fell asleep before the Fleischer film was over. I will rerun
> the last part. My feeling so far is that the VN connection is limited to
> newspaper reports. There was a psychic involved though. The murders were
> 1962-Jan. 1964 and the Gerold Frank book from which the film came was
1966.
> VN was already in Switzerland. It is unlikely he saw either book or film
> (he did not own a TV, although he sometimes rented on for special events).
> I'll do a more detailed report a little later. Best, Don
> P.S. The TT reading seems to be going well -- thanks to your knowledge and
> contributions.
>
> --On Friday, July 30, 2004 11:22 PM +0900 Akiko Nakata
> <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp> wrote:
>
> > This message was originally submitted by a-nakata@COURANTE.PLALA.OR.JP
> > to the NABOKV-L list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it
back
> > to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields
> > (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail
> > program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations
you
> > are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand
> > you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to
> > remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact
> > the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of
> > your mail program.
> >
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (25 lines)
> > ------------------ Don, thank you for your comments.
> > Looking for Mary Bellino's references to SPR, I reached her notes on
> > Nabokv-L and your paper "Nabokov and de la Mare," in which you noted her
> > findings. Has she published something on it?
> > And . . . how was the Fleischer film you watched for the group reading?
> > Akiko
> >
> >>
> >> --------------------------------
> >> EDCOMMENT. The "little three-legged table" that dreaming Hugh strangles
> >> obviously suggests the planchette used with the ouija board in some
> >> seances. Akiko's connection to "The Vane Sisters" is invaluable. Mary
> >> Bellino, among others, has traced some of the "Vane Sisters"' seance
> >> material to publications of the Cambridge (UK) Society for Psychical
> >> Research (SPR). It seems not unlikely that some may also occur in TT.
The
> >> Society was very active at Cambridge during VN's time there. Some
> >> branches of VN's family had an active interest in such things and their
> >> names
> > figure
> >> in Russian reports to the SPR.
> >> As for the film of "The Boston Strangler", I have located a
copy
> > here and
> >> will watch it this evening----ad majoram gloriam Nabokov Studies.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
> D. Barton Johnson
> NABOKV-L
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Date: Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:12 PM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Re: Introductory notes to TT-7 (query: Bellino's article)
Dear Don,
I am sorry to hear that the Fleischer film was so boring (as I had expected)
and I do appreciate your watching it malgre vous for us (especially me).
Thank you for your kind words. I am very glad that the TT reading has been
stimulating.
Best,
Akiko
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
To: "Akiko Nakata" <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: Introductory notes to TT-7 (query: Bellino's article)
> Dear Akiko,
> I confess I fell asleep before the Fleischer film was over. I will rerun
> the last part. My feeling so far is that the VN connection is limited to
> newspaper reports. There was a psychic involved though. The murders were
> 1962-Jan. 1964 and the Gerold Frank book from which the film came was
1966.
> VN was already in Switzerland. It is unlikely he saw either book or film
> (he did not own a TV, although he sometimes rented on for special events).
> I'll do a more detailed report a little later. Best, Don
> P.S. The TT reading seems to be going well -- thanks to your knowledge and
> contributions.
>
> --On Friday, July 30, 2004 11:22 PM +0900 Akiko Nakata
> <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp> wrote:
>
> > This message was originally submitted by a-nakata@COURANTE.PLALA.OR.JP
> > to the NABOKV-L list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it
back
> > to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields
> > (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail
> > program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations
you
> > are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand
> > you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to
> > remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact
> > the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of
> > your mail program.
> >
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (25 lines)
> > ------------------ Don, thank you for your comments.
> > Looking for Mary Bellino's references to SPR, I reached her notes on
> > Nabokv-L and your paper "Nabokov and de la Mare," in which you noted her
> > findings. Has she published something on it?
> > And . . . how was the Fleischer film you watched for the group reading?
> > Akiko
> >
> >>
> >> --------------------------------
> >> EDCOMMENT. The "little three-legged table" that dreaming Hugh strangles
> >> obviously suggests the planchette used with the ouija board in some
> >> seances. Akiko's connection to "The Vane Sisters" is invaluable. Mary
> >> Bellino, among others, has traced some of the "Vane Sisters"' seance
> >> material to publications of the Cambridge (UK) Society for Psychical
> >> Research (SPR). It seems not unlikely that some may also occur in TT.
The
> >> Society was very active at Cambridge during VN's time there. Some
> >> branches of VN's family had an active interest in such things and their
> >> names
> > figure
> >> in Russian reports to the SPR.
> >> As for the film of "The Boston Strangler", I have located a
copy
> > here and
> >> will watch it this evening----ad majoram gloriam Nabokov Studies.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
> D. Barton Johnson
> NABOKV-L
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