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Re: SIGHTING -- DN TIMES OBIT
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> I was near to asking the (London) Times why they had covered so many trivial
> deaths post-dating Dmitri¹s Feb 22 departure ... Then today, March 9, his
> obituary has at last appeared. The headings read
>
> Dmitri Nabokov
> Translator, opera singer, racing driver and keeper of his novelist father¹s
> flame who translated much of his writings into English.
>
> The photo shows a rather distressed DN posed in front of a stern portrait of
> VN. I¹m not totally pleased. Dmitri gets a quarter of the print-area devoted
> to an obscure member of an obscure pop-group (the Monkees; who they?!). On the
> TOoL affair, they write ³Many felt that it was a rare misstep and did not add
> to Nabokov¹s reputation.² Surely, that loaded, misleading ³many² should more
> fairly be a ³some?²
>
> The Times do run supplementary Lives Remembered columns submitted by readers.
> I hope some such appear from VN-listers who knew Dmitri well.
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
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> deaths post-dating Dmitri¹s Feb 22 departure ... Then today, March 9, his
> obituary has at last appeared. The headings read
>
> Dmitri Nabokov
> Translator, opera singer, racing driver and keeper of his novelist father¹s
> flame who translated much of his writings into English.
>
> The photo shows a rather distressed DN posed in front of a stern portrait of
> VN. I¹m not totally pleased. Dmitri gets a quarter of the print-area devoted
> to an obscure member of an obscure pop-group (the Monkees; who they?!). On the
> TOoL affair, they write ³Many felt that it was a rare misstep and did not add
> to Nabokov¹s reputation.² Surely, that loaded, misleading ³many² should more
> fairly be a ³some?²
>
> The Times do run supplementary Lives Remembered columns submitted by readers.
> I hope some such appear from VN-listers who knew Dmitri well.
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
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