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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] anagrams
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:08:21 -0500
From: Joshua Roberts <bixx@mindspring.com>
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To: nabokv-l <nabokv-l@utk.edu>
The Three Meetings parody was written by the late, sorely missed (and
underappreciated) Stanley Elkin, not the actor Eli Wallach, and appeared
in the Nabokov "70th Birthday Tribute" issue of 1970. To paraphrase one
of the characters potrayed onscreen by Wallach, "There are two kinds of
people in this world, my friend. Those who skillfully parody Vladimir
Nabokov, and those who don't."
>>>>>>>>This reminds me -- does anyone remember a Nabokov parody called
"Three Meetings" by Eli Wallach? It's long out of print, but the bit I
recall is his discovery of the Lightly Salted butterfly, "bug pennants,
bucking....choppy flags of the forest". This book I think was named for
much funnier parody (wouldn't it be?) of Eliot, a takeoff on "The
Cocktail Party" called Hopalong-Freud, which ends with the audience
kneeling and singing Adeste, Fideles.
--Tim Henderson
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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] anagrams
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:08:21 -0500
From: Joshua Roberts <bixx@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: bixx@mindspring.com
To: nabokv-l <nabokv-l@utk.edu>
The Three Meetings parody was written by the late, sorely missed (and
underappreciated) Stanley Elkin, not the actor Eli Wallach, and appeared
in the Nabokov "70th Birthday Tribute" issue of 1970. To paraphrase one
of the characters potrayed onscreen by Wallach, "There are two kinds of
people in this world, my friend. Those who skillfully parody Vladimir
Nabokov, and those who don't."
>>>>>>>>This reminds me -- does anyone remember a Nabokov parody called
"Three Meetings" by Eli Wallach? It's long out of print, but the bit I
recall is his discovery of the Lightly Salted butterfly, "bug pennants,
bucking....choppy flags of the forest". This book I think was named for
much funnier parody (wouldn't it be?) of Eliot, a takeoff on "The
Cocktail Party" called Hopalong-Freud, which ends with the audience
kneeling and singing Adeste, Fideles.
--Tim Henderson
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