EDNote: on the story below Carolyn's response to it:  I think what the author has missed, or left comically hidden in plain view, is the likelihood that VN knew the answer was derived from the film, but thought it showed enough skill and sensitivity to deserve a decent grade and a tongue-in-cheek job offer as professional movie summarizer!  It's much funnier than Epstein lets on in his recollection.  VN did have a sense of humor, after all!

~SB

Subject:
Re: [NABOKV-L] fake your way through a quiz by Prof. Vladimir Nabokov ...
From:
Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@att.net>
Date:
3/29/2013 10:54 AM
To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>

Actually I find it rawther shocking that Professor V N could be so easily bamboozled. My Professor V Markov knew all the movies and all the tricks, and we were asked such questions as "what is a drapdedamavaya shal' " - you couldn't get away with not reading the text - i po russky.

Carolyn


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March 28, 2013

How to fake your way through a quiz by Prof. Vladimir Nabokov

by Abigail Grace Murdy

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