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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> Hello Brian
> I only joined a couple of months ago myself, and although I've read most
of
> VN's work, I have not read it all. Wingstroke is a beautiful story. I was
> actually a little upset with Boyd's treatment of it in the VN bios, but no
> matter. I just recently complete VN's short stories (couple months ago)
and
> loved most of them (the Vane Sisters especially). IUsually limit myself to
> questions about VN and his work because I feel a little overwhealm when
> discussing some of the things that most of the other list members know a
lot
> more about. So, on that note bye bye.
> Dane Gill
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: early Nabokov stories/Wingstroke
> >Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 10:42:31 -0800
> >
> >EDNOTE. SEE COMMENT at end.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> >To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >.
> > >
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> > > Hi
> > >
> > > This is my first post and I would like to say hello
> > > and Happy New Year. I have no idea of the amount of
> > > discussion on this list or what the latest posts are,
> > > but I found it via Zembla and Waxwing. I recently
> > > started my own group at Yahoo (Viviandarkbloom)
> > > because I was so despairing of finding a discussion
> > > list. Then I discovered this list.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I haven't read all of N's work so I am a bit
> > > of a novice at discussing everything in detail but I'd
> > > like to kick off by mentioning one particularly
> > > fascinating story. I'm working my way through N's
> > > early stories and I am quite amazed by what I can only
> > > describe as a kind of prototypical magical realism in
> > > them which I've never seen commented on anywhere.
> > > This is particularly so in 'Wingstroke', where an
> > > angel appears in the narrator's hotel room. Anyone
> > > read this delightful story?
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > =====
> > > http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> > > http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
>
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> >EDNOTE. "Wingstroke" was one of the four early stories (w/ "Revenge,"
> >"Potato Elf," & "La Veneziana" that contribute to the aborted "English"
> >channel in VN's early post-Cambridge years when he was switching from
> >poetry
> >to prose. (The other channel, the Russian one, had Russian emigre
> >settings.) The English stories, in their preoccupation with the
> >"otherworldly," were written under the influence of Walter de la Mare,
who
> >was very popular at the time. I discuss these stories in "Vladimir
Nabokov
> >and Walter de la Mare" in Jane Grayson's conference proceedings volume
> >NABOKOV's WORLD (Palgrave 2002).
> >
> >I join Brian in asking for comment on and discussion of "Wingstroke."
>
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (71
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> Hello Brian
> I only joined a couple of months ago myself, and although I've read most
of
> VN's work, I have not read it all. Wingstroke is a beautiful story. I was
> actually a little upset with Boyd's treatment of it in the VN bios, but no
> matter. I just recently complete VN's short stories (couple months ago)
and
> loved most of them (the Vane Sisters especially). IUsually limit myself to
> questions about VN and his work because I feel a little overwhealm when
> discussing some of the things that most of the other list members know a
lot
> more about. So, on that note bye bye.
> Dane Gill
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: early Nabokov stories/Wingstroke
> >Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 10:42:31 -0800
> >
> >EDNOTE. SEE COMMENT at end.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> >To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >.
> > >
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (33
> >lines) ------------------
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > This is my first post and I would like to say hello
> > > and Happy New Year. I have no idea of the amount of
> > > discussion on this list or what the latest posts are,
> > > but I found it via Zembla and Waxwing. I recently
> > > started my own group at Yahoo (Viviandarkbloom)
> > > because I was so despairing of finding a discussion
> > > list. Then I discovered this list.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I haven't read all of N's work so I am a bit
> > > of a novice at discussing everything in detail but I'd
> > > like to kick off by mentioning one particularly
> > > fascinating story. I'm working my way through N's
> > > early stories and I am quite amazed by what I can only
> > > describe as a kind of prototypical magical realism in
> > > them which I've never seen commented on anywhere.
> > > This is particularly so in 'Wingstroke', where an
> > > angel appears in the narrator's hotel room. Anyone
> > > read this delightful story?
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > =====
> > > http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> > > http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
>
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>
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> >
> >EDNOTE. "Wingstroke" was one of the four early stories (w/ "Revenge,"
> >"Potato Elf," & "La Veneziana" that contribute to the aborted "English"
> >channel in VN's early post-Cambridge years when he was switching from
> >poetry
> >to prose. (The other channel, the Russian one, had Russian emigre
> >settings.) The English stories, in their preoccupation with the
> >"otherworldly," were written under the influence of Walter de la Mare,
who
> >was very popular at the time. I discuss these stories in "Vladimir
Nabokov
> >and Walter de la Mare" in Jane Grayson's conference proceedings volume
> >NABOKOV's WORLD (Palgrave 2002).
> >
> >I join Brian in asking for comment on and discussion of "Wingstroke."
>
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