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Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 5:56 PM
Subject: "REALITY" -- Nabokov or Campbell?
Glad you brought up this quote, because I've always wondered who said
it first.
Some years ago, I encountered a similar aphorism
attributed to Joseph Campbell, the follow-your-bliss myth scholar who enjoyed a
spate of posthumous popularity in the late 1980s.
A web search turns up
the following: "There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation
marks around it." ‹ Joseph Campbell. (I found it at the following site:
http://www.righteouswarriortemple.org/real.htm)
No idea when he said it,
what context or what year -- but please dear God someone relieve my mind that
Campbell stole it from VN, and not the other way around.
Rodney
Welch
Columbia, SC
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EDNOTE. VN dared his LOLITA Afterword as Nov 12, 1956. Campbell's _Hero
with a Thousand Faces_ was 1948 but I don't if his reality quote was in
it. I can't image VN quoting Campbell.