Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001631, Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:02:54 -0800

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Re: VN Stamp (fwd)
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From: Jay Livingston <LIVINGSTON@saturn.montclair.edu>

And then there was the story (I'm probably remembering it incorrectly) about the
post office in San Francisco that did a brisk business in the Nixon stamp when
it was first issued. They sold it in a clear plastic envelope on which had been
drawn prison cell bars.

EDITOR'S COMMENT. Echoes of VN's "first throb of LOLITA"---the ape in
the Paris Jardin des Plantes that drew a picture of the
bars on his/her cage?