Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0015141, Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:08:09 -0400

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Re: THOUGHTS: Stillicide and F. W. H. Myers
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He is also briefly mentioned a propos "The Vane Sisters" in Priscilla
Meyer, "Nabokov and the Spirits: Dolorous Haze--Hazel Shade," Nabokov’s
World, 2 vols., ed. Jane Grayson, Priscilla Meyer and Arnold McMillin,
Macmillan,London, 2001, Vol. 1, 88-103, and will be more fully in
Meyer, "Anglophonia and Optimysticism: The Real Life of Sebastian
Knight," publication data to follow.


On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:51 AM, NABOKV-L wrote:

> [EDNOTE. This discussion didn't turn up in the Nabokv-L Archives. --
> SES]
>
> Don and I had a discussion about F.W.H Myers several years ago,
> after I identified a passage in Bend Sinister as a direct quote
> from Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death. I don't
> believe this discussion was conducted on Nabokv-L, but you could
> check the archives, and when I get a minute I'll run some
> searches in my own e-mail archives. In the meanwhile, see Don's
> "Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's 'Otherworld,'" in vol.
> 1 of Nabokov's World, ed. Jane Grayson, Arnold McMillin, and
> Priscilla Meyer (Palgrave, 2002), 71-87, esp. 83, with n. 28.
>
> Mary
>
>> Dear Matt,
>> If memory serves VN cites Meyers in "The Vane Sisters." I
>> discuss this somewhere but not sure where. Maybe it will come
> to me.
>>
>> Best, Don (Johnson)
>
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