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Lauding ZEMBLA (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. ZEMBLA, the VN Butterfly Net, one of the information
sources under the the aegis of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society,
is singled out for praise in a recent cyber-journal. I would like to
congratulate Jeff Edmunds who designed and runs ZEMBLA.
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A glowing review (by Cara Stimpson)
of ZEMBLA, the Nabokov Butterfly Net http:
//www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm, established and run by
Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu> with the generous support of the Penn
State Library system, may be found in _The Net_, a glossy journal well
known among cyber-designers.
The review appears on page 65 of the June 97 issue. Earlier, on
>page 49, at the beginning of the "blue pages" (a net directory), the Zembla
>motto is quoted ("Not flimsy nonsense...") and mention is made of the site.
>The review itself, which is quite well written, says in part:
> "In what is the simultaneously overwhelming and underwhelming
>time-suck of the Internet, Zembla, the Nabokov Butterfly Net, is a
>vitalizing illumination that will leave you, in the manner of a long,
>satisfying trip to the library, with a tweedy, dry-mouthed love of both life
>and language."
> The article concludes:
> "Ultimately, though, what is more compelling than all the academic
>minutiae, idol worship, and groupie-type photographs is the world of Zembla
>in and of itself: the simultaneously mesmerizing, perplexing, and
>tongue-in-cheek realm of the Nabokov-obsessed.
> So visit. You'll leave humbler and smarter and, above all, happliy
>awash in words."
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sources under the the aegis of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society,
is singled out for praise in a recent cyber-journal. I would like to
congratulate Jeff Edmunds who designed and runs ZEMBLA.
>------------------------------------------------------
A glowing review (by Cara Stimpson)
of ZEMBLA, the Nabokov Butterfly Net http:
//www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm, established and run by
Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu> with the generous support of the Penn
State Library system, may be found in _The Net_, a glossy journal well
known among cyber-designers.
The review appears on page 65 of the June 97 issue. Earlier, on
>page 49, at the beginning of the "blue pages" (a net directory), the Zembla
>motto is quoted ("Not flimsy nonsense...") and mention is made of the site.
>The review itself, which is quite well written, says in part:
> "In what is the simultaneously overwhelming and underwhelming
>time-suck of the Internet, Zembla, the Nabokov Butterfly Net, is a
>vitalizing illumination that will leave you, in the manner of a long,
>satisfying trip to the library, with a tweedy, dry-mouthed love of both life
>and language."
> The article concludes:
> "Ultimately, though, what is more compelling than all the academic
>minutiae, idol worship, and groupie-type photographs is the world of Zembla
>in and of itself: the simultaneously mesmerizing, perplexing, and
>tongue-in-cheek realm of the Nabokov-obsessed.
> So visit. You'll leave humbler and smarter and, above all, happliy
>awash in words."
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