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Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:56 AM
Subject: DN replies to Dane Gill's questions.
1. It
was 1947. We were blissfully summering in Estes Park, Colorado. I was thrteen. I
accompanied my father on butterfly rambles, and climbed Long's Peak, my
first serious mountain. Henry Holt had just published Bend Sinister,
with its sinister, purple, lightning-streaked dust jacket. Father
decided I was ready, and gave me a copy to read. It made a deep
impression on me.
2. The
first visit I made, or wanted to make, was in 1995. I was a guest at the "White
Nights" of St-Petersburg, and treated royally. Besides the then-embryonic
VN Museum at our former town house, I visited the only one of our country
mansions still standing, although recently damaged by fire. It was promised to
me, but nothing has come of that. I lectured at the Public Library,
and was guest of honor at a formal ball at the Peterhof, more or less on the model of other times, to honor the
reopening of its fountains, and sang there briefly with the great
Irina Arhipova.
Grreetings,
DN
From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@cox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:47 PM
To:
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Subject: Fw: A Few Questions for DN
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From: "Dane Gill"
<pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
Greetings
I was just
wondering:
1. What was the first VN
novel you read, and at what age?
2. When did you first (if
ever) visit Russia/USSR?
Thank
You
Dane
Gill