Dear Sandy,
I must therefore ask you to
relay the following answer to those who may have been asking about this
approximate VN quote: "you can always count on a murderer for a fancy
prose style" -- from another context, regarding Humbert.
Ciao,
D
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:49:44 +0100
From: John Liesveld <liesveld@mac.com> <mailto:liesveld@mac.com>
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Dear friends,
I have a question and wonder if someone can pinpoint a
quotation.
For the Obama inauguration, on France 2 TV Bernard-Henri
Lévy said
that Nabokov always said that one can judge a man by the
way he
speaks. He was speaking French and there was no direct
quotation,
but can anyone identify the source, when and where
Nabokov related this?
Thank you,
Jack Liesveld