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"Nova Zembla" (fwd)
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Donald Harrington, who posts the query below, should be
known to all Nabokovians as the author of the recent novel EKATERINA
(Harcout Brace 1993), a sort of an inverted Lolita tale, described by one
reviewer as "an immensely entertaining romp through the transplanted
imagination of VN." He is alsothe author, inter alia, of a series of
novels set in the Ozark hamlet of Stay More. DBJ
From: Donald Harington <dharingt@comp.uark.edu>
This weekend, shopping for nursery plants at the local Lowe's (a
national home and garden supply emporium), I found (and bought) a couple
of rhododendron plants named "Nova Zembla".
Two questions:
(1) Does this mean Nabokov has a fan in Lowe's taxonomy department?
(2) Does the rhododendron have any special significance for VN?
Anyway, I planted the two shrubs in my yard, and I'll watch them grow.
Donald Harington
known to all Nabokovians as the author of the recent novel EKATERINA
(Harcout Brace 1993), a sort of an inverted Lolita tale, described by one
reviewer as "an immensely entertaining romp through the transplanted
imagination of VN." He is alsothe author, inter alia, of a series of
novels set in the Ozark hamlet of Stay More. DBJ
From: Donald Harington <dharingt@comp.uark.edu>
This weekend, shopping for nursery plants at the local Lowe's (a
national home and garden supply emporium), I found (and bought) a couple
of rhododendron plants named "Nova Zembla".
Two questions:
(1) Does this mean Nabokov has a fan in Lowe's taxonomy department?
(2) Does the rhododendron have any special significance for VN?
Anyway, I planted the two shrubs in my yard, and I'll watch them grow.
Donald Harington