Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0016993, Wed, 3 Sep 2008 22:42:45 EDT

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Re: "aerial wolf gunning"
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In a message dated 9/3/2008 9:37:36 PM Central Daylight Time,
michaeldonohue@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> Cf. Pale Fire, p. 139: "[Odon's] mother was an American, from New Wye in
> New England. She is said to have been the first woman in the world to shoot
> wolves, and, I believe, other animals, from an airplane."
>
> Anyone know of VN's acquaintance with this practice?
>
> Mike Donohue
I'm sure he heard about it in his trips to the West. See Arthur Miller's The
Misfits.

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