Vladimir Nabokov

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> pynchon-l-digest Sunday, August 31 2003 Volume 02 : Number
3521
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> Re: NPPF Comm 2: Parents: some notes
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> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:52:17 +1000
> From: jbor <jbor@bigpond.com>
> Subject: Re: NPPF Comm 2: Parents: some notes
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> on 31/8/03 3:09 PM, Don Corathers at gumbo@fuse.net wrote:
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> > The inclusion of Botkin in a list of names where it doesn't really fit
> > (three writers--four counting Luke--and a shoemaker) is a way of
pointing at
> > the name. Nabokov does this now and then, makes an odd intrusion or has
one
> > of his characters say we shouldn't concern ourselves with X, which is
> > usually a clear signal that we should check X out very carefully.
> >
> > And the paragraph is about how names change.
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> Your thesis doesn't really seem to fit with the other mentions of Botkin
> which Kinbote makes in the commentary; Lukin, Locock, Luxon and
Lukashevich
> aren't names which refer to writers; and the paragraph actually begins and
> concludes with references to Hurley's obituary; but I won't labour the
> argument.
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> We'll just have to agree to disagree.
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> best
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