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query: ironization of excessive emotion
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At 15:00 5/6/97 -0700, you wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 17:36:14 -0400 (EDT)
>To: nabokv-l@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
>Subject: lost reference
>
>From: Ferry Elizabeth A <eferry@brynmawr.edu>
>
>
>Dear Professor Johnson,
>My name is Bob Bettendorf (I'm using my girlfriend's e-mail account for
>the time being because mine is out of service.) I'm writing a master's
>thesis on Nabokov and have lost a reference. Nabokov or a critic refers
>somewhere to his or one of his character's "ironization of excessive
>emotion" (this may be only a near-quote). I badly need to track this
>quote down and any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
>Sincerely, Robert Bettendorf
>
It's from "Ada" (Part Two, 6, p. 306 of my "Penguin" edition, 1971):
"Despite of athletic strength of will, ironization of excessive emotions,
and contempt for weepy weakling, Van" etc.
Best
Sergey B. Il'in
<isb@glas.apc.org>
Moscow
Nashe delo veseloe.
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 17:36:14 -0400 (EDT)
>To: nabokv-l@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
>Subject: lost reference
>
>From: Ferry Elizabeth A <eferry@brynmawr.edu>
>
>
>Dear Professor Johnson,
>My name is Bob Bettendorf (I'm using my girlfriend's e-mail account for
>the time being because mine is out of service.) I'm writing a master's
>thesis on Nabokov and have lost a reference. Nabokov or a critic refers
>somewhere to his or one of his character's "ironization of excessive
>emotion" (this may be only a near-quote). I badly need to track this
>quote down and any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
>Sincerely, Robert Bettendorf
>
It's from "Ada" (Part Two, 6, p. 306 of my "Penguin" edition, 1971):
"Despite of athletic strength of will, ironization of excessive emotions,
and contempt for weepy weakling, Van" etc.
Best
Sergey B. Il'in
<isb@glas.apc.org>
Moscow
Nashe delo veseloe.