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A question of obscure interest:
I came across this poem by William Matthews (probably many people on
the
list have seen it before), called "Nabokov's Blues."
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=26734
One detail leaps out from the fourth stanza: in one photograph at the
exhibit, VN is shown writing with his left hand. (the poet: "left
handed!
why did I never trouble / to find out?") But VN seems to be
right-handed in
the photographs I've seen (including two on Zembla:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/abvn.htm). Is there a photograph
out
there where VN is pretending to be left-handed? Or a photo where the
image
was reversed, like the famous Hank Aaron baseball card? Any
explanations?
Mike Donohue