Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001589, Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:22:48 -0800

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Re: VN Bibliography: LOLITA & DR. ZHIVAGO (fwd)
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From: Seth Roberts <roberts@garnet.berkeley.edu>

A fact from today's (1/13/97) Wall Street Journal: The Joseph Dixon factory,
which produced the graphite in Ticonderoga pencils, burned down in 1968
--not all that long before Transparent Things (published 1972) was written.

Seth Roberts
University of California Berkeley