DN: GENTLEMEN: THE CARDS WERE
138, NOT 50, AND THE GEMS STILL IN THE "BARREL" ARE MANY.
Stan K-Bootle wrote:
"It's time for all good Nabokovians to come to Dmitri's aid. The tough decision
has been made. I rejoice that we'll get to see whatever survived of Laura! Idly
pondering and browsing, I thought of Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost,"
labours which have now been "Wonne!"
JM: I join Stan
K-B's invitation to "come to Dmitri's aid ...after the tough decision has been
made" and the gems in the barrel are a hundred and thirty-eight... Love's
Labours Wonne. I keep trying to imagine how these cards are going to
be published. I hope that we can get facsimiles of the cards themselves
in a nice small box ( like another one VN kept with some of his sentences
which he thought he might use one day and he let an interviewer leaf through, as
related in "Strong Opinions").
All
private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both
co-editors.