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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:14 PM
Subject: RE: reply to carolyn
> I'm giving this topic a wide berth (although I'm confident the molehill
theory will be borne out), but I did want to say that "Perhaps years of
curling up in a chaise longue with a pet chicken have taken their toll" is
one of the funniest sentences I've read in a long time.
I'd like to see some Oulipean construct a Wodehouse pastiche around it
some time.
>
> GK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 4/19/04 11:15 PM
> Subject: Fw: reply to carolyn
> Importance: High
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dmitri Nabokov
> To: 'D. <mailto:chtodel@cox.net> Barton Johnson'
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 2:11 PM
> Subject: reply to carolyn;
>
>
> Please post:
>
> What flabbergasts me is that Carolyn, whose comments are sometimes sober
> and coherent, should emphatically affirm that Mr. Maar's "discovery" is
> "important," that "he handled it very well", and that the "parallels"
> are more than "vague." Propelled solely by hearsay, she has lurched onto
> the Forum with judgements about a work she admits she has not read,
> written in a language she admits she does not know. Is she being serious
> when she suggests a legal proceeding? Between ghosts? The most
> reasonable suggestion was that discussion be withheld until the story
> has been read, whereupon it will be clear that this is one dark-voiced
> gypsy song that VN did not copy, and that the improvident Maar's
> supposed scoop has helped make a dung heap out of a molehill.
>
> Perhaps years of curling up in a chaise longue with a pet chicken have
> taken their toll. Credulous Carolyn may be in for a surprise. What if it
> turned out that the whole Lichberg legend, from the photo on the train
> not from Lakehurst where he did not arrive by Zeppelin, to the
> third-rate German of the Lolita story, to the Heil Hitler days were all
> an elaborate mystification, to drum up publicity for the imminent
> auction? Or maybe it's another variation -- the Zeppelin ride he wrote
> up was true, and so was the pro-Nazi journalism, but he never wrote such
> a story (doesn't the fact that, wherever it appears now, it is,
> purportedly, "substantially abidged" tell us something?) Is it time yet
> to 'fess up, Jeff?
>
> I thank Carolyn for reminding me that my father was (is?) not God. But
> can she prove it?
>
> Greetings to everyone, including Carolyn,
>
> DN
>
>
>
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:14 PM
Subject: RE: reply to carolyn
> I'm giving this topic a wide berth (although I'm confident the molehill
theory will be borne out), but I did want to say that "Perhaps years of
curling up in a chaise longue with a pet chicken have taken their toll" is
one of the funniest sentences I've read in a long time.
I'd like to see some Oulipean construct a Wodehouse pastiche around it
some time.
>
> GK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 4/19/04 11:15 PM
> Subject: Fw: reply to carolyn
> Importance: High
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dmitri Nabokov
> To: 'D. <mailto:chtodel@cox.net> Barton Johnson'
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 2:11 PM
> Subject: reply to carolyn;
>
>
> Please post:
>
> What flabbergasts me is that Carolyn, whose comments are sometimes sober
> and coherent, should emphatically affirm that Mr. Maar's "discovery" is
> "important," that "he handled it very well", and that the "parallels"
> are more than "vague." Propelled solely by hearsay, she has lurched onto
> the Forum with judgements about a work she admits she has not read,
> written in a language she admits she does not know. Is she being serious
> when she suggests a legal proceeding? Between ghosts? The most
> reasonable suggestion was that discussion be withheld until the story
> has been read, whereupon it will be clear that this is one dark-voiced
> gypsy song that VN did not copy, and that the improvident Maar's
> supposed scoop has helped make a dung heap out of a molehill.
>
> Perhaps years of curling up in a chaise longue with a pet chicken have
> taken their toll. Credulous Carolyn may be in for a surprise. What if it
> turned out that the whole Lichberg legend, from the photo on the train
> not from Lakehurst where he did not arrive by Zeppelin, to the
> third-rate German of the Lolita story, to the Heil Hitler days were all
> an elaborate mystification, to drum up publicity for the imminent
> auction? Or maybe it's another variation -- the Zeppelin ride he wrote
> up was true, and so was the pro-Nazi journalism, but he never wrote such
> a story (doesn't the fact that, wherever it appears now, it is,
> purportedly, "substantially abidged" tell us something?) Is it time yet
> to 'fess up, Jeff?
>
> I thank Carolyn for reminding me that my father was (is?) not God. But
> can she prove it?
>
> Greetings to everyone, including Carolyn,
>
> DN
>
>
>