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From: Walter Miale
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Nabokov and Chaplin
From Walter Miale
re Nabokov and Chaplin
Dmitri Nabokov wrote:
...I
also know that my father, no matter how much he enjoyed Chaplin's comic
skills, had valid political cause to avoid frequenting the
man (who lived not far from the Montreux Palace), in spite of
the well-meaning efforts of various
undiscriminating intermediaries.....
I would like to ask Dmitri Nabokov to please elaborate on this. I'm sorry if I am missing something obvious, but what more specifically were VN's reasons for not wanting to meet Chaplin socially?