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From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
> Unfortunately I think anyone with BBC Radio just missed this today.
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> "In a lane at the corner of the municipal opera house there was an old
three-storeyed hotel of a disreputable type, with rooms that were by the
week or by the hour. A pale but jaunty lackey led Chorb down a crooked
corridor reeking of dampness and boiled cabbage into a room that Chorb
recognised by the picture of a pink baigneuse in a gilt frame over the bed
as the very one in which he and his wife had spent their first night
together. Everything amused her then: the fat man in his shirtsleeves who
was vomiting right in the
passage; and the fact of their having chosen by chance such a
beastly hotel; and the presence of a lovely blonde hair in the
wash-basin."
>
> Today's Twenty Minutes (8.20pm, Radio 3) is a masterpiece of melancholy,
Vladimir Nabokov's story The Return of Chorb. Chorb's wife has died during
their honeymoon, and now he must break the news to his in-laws. Don't miss
David Tennant's beautifully understated reading.
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>
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> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
> Unfortunately I think anyone with BBC Radio just missed this today.
>
>
> "In a lane at the corner of the municipal opera house there was an old
three-storeyed hotel of a disreputable type, with rooms that were by the
week or by the hour. A pale but jaunty lackey led Chorb down a crooked
corridor reeking of dampness and boiled cabbage into a room that Chorb
recognised by the picture of a pink baigneuse in a gilt frame over the bed
as the very one in which he and his wife had spent their first night
together. Everything amused her then: the fat man in his shirtsleeves who
was vomiting right in the
passage; and the fact of their having chosen by chance such a
beastly hotel; and the presence of a lovely blonde hair in the
wash-basin."
>
> Today's Twenty Minutes (8.20pm, Radio 3) is a masterpiece of melancholy,
Vladimir Nabokov's story The Return of Chorb. Chorb's wife has died during
their honeymoon, and now he must break the news to his in-laws. Don't miss
David Tennant's beautifully understated reading.
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu