[Includes some inaccuracies and a playful suggestion about TOOL publication ~SB]

Subject:

Nabokov's books are marvels of precise writing ...

From:

"Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>

Date:

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:22:33 -0400

To:

Sandy Klein--hotmail <spklein52@hotmail.com>

FractaLog

Model-Predict-Understand...A non-linear space for students of Chaos and Fractals

http://www.fractalog.com/fractalog_blog/2008/3/23/nonlinear-nabokov.html

Nonlinear Nabokov

In his Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote most achingly of the need, for those so called, to write...

ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity;

Vladimir Nabokov - a pre-eminent author of the 20th century, Russian emigre, butterfly expert, author of Lolita - built his life according to Rilke's mandate.
But he shuffled while he wrote. [. . .]

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