Subject
Nabokoviana
Date
Body
1) In _Jiggery Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls_ ed. Anthony Hecht
& John Hollander (NY: Athenium, 1967), p. 95.
Fiddelsky diddlesky
Vladimir Nabokov
Pared his perceptions down
Beautifully fine,
Firmly insisting
UnDostoevskian
Flickers of color
Tremors of line.
Christopher Wallace-Crabbe
Editor's Note: Double Dactyls were a short-lived craze of the sixties.
Somewhere in my files, there is a "Nabokov" dd that, unlike the above,
makes a point of stressing his name correctly, i.e., _ / _.
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2) _The Writer's Quotation Book. A Literary Companion_ ed. by James
Charlton (NY: Penguin, 1986), pp. 9 & 63.
The opening quote is: "Literature was not born the day when
a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with
a big gray wolf at his heels: literature was born on the days when a boy
came crying "wolf,wolf" and there was no wolf behind him."
----
"Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their
rough drafts. It is like passing around samples of one's sputum."
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
& John Hollander (NY: Athenium, 1967), p. 95.
Fiddelsky diddlesky
Vladimir Nabokov
Pared his perceptions down
Beautifully fine,
Firmly insisting
UnDostoevskian
Flickers of color
Tremors of line.
Christopher Wallace-Crabbe
Editor's Note: Double Dactyls were a short-lived craze of the sixties.
Somewhere in my files, there is a "Nabokov" dd that, unlike the above,
makes a point of stressing his name correctly, i.e., _ / _.
------------------
2) _The Writer's Quotation Book. A Literary Companion_ ed. by James
Charlton (NY: Penguin, 1986), pp. 9 & 63.
The opening quote is: "Literature was not born the day when
a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with
a big gray wolf at his heels: literature was born on the days when a boy
came crying "wolf,wolf" and there was no wolf behind him."
----
"Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their
rough drafts. It is like passing around samples of one's sputum."
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618