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From: "Earl Sampson" <esamson3@attbi.com>
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> From Earl Sampson <esampson@post.harvard.edu>
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> Our local paper recently reprinted, from the Boston Globe, a review by
> Gail Caldwell of John Murray's story collection "A Few Short Notes on
> Tropical Butterflies." The title itself is intriguing, and the following
> paragraph from the review further suggests, it seems to me, a possible
> Nabokov nexus:
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> "His debut collection is overflowing with the glories and cruelties of
> the natural world - summer rain, infectious disease, the hypnotic danger
> of a white-out in the Himalayas - and yet the structure of his fiction
> feels illuminated by metaphysics. The tree may fall in the forest
> regardless of its witness, but the witness has the capacity to give it
> genus, species, and an infinite staircase of metaphorical wonder."
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> Perhaps some member or members of this extremely well-read forum is
> familiar enough with the book to confirm or deny a connection.
>
> A link to the full review may be found at:
> <www.dailycamera.com/bdc/books/>
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From: "Earl Sampson" <esamson3@attbi.com>
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>
> From Earl Sampson <esampson@post.harvard.edu>
>
> Our local paper recently reprinted, from the Boston Globe, a review by
> Gail Caldwell of John Murray's story collection "A Few Short Notes on
> Tropical Butterflies." The title itself is intriguing, and the following
> paragraph from the review further suggests, it seems to me, a possible
> Nabokov nexus:
>
> "His debut collection is overflowing with the glories and cruelties of
> the natural world - summer rain, infectious disease, the hypnotic danger
> of a white-out in the Himalayas - and yet the structure of his fiction
> feels illuminated by metaphysics. The tree may fall in the forest
> regardless of its witness, but the witness has the capacity to give it
> genus, species, and an infinite staircase of metaphorical wonder."
>
> Perhaps some member or members of this extremely well-read forum is
> familiar enough with the book to confirm or deny a connection.
>
> A link to the full review may be found at:
> <www.dailycamera.com/bdc/books/>
>
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