World Cup Soccer championship is approaching. I received a link to an extensive quote, from Speak, Memory, describing Nabokov's experience as a goalie:

TOM CLARK: Vladimir Nabokov: Keeper of a Secret By TC
Vladimir Nabokov: Keeper of a Secret . Of the games I played at Cambridge, soccer has remained a wind-swept clearing in the middle of a rather muddled period. I was crazy about goal keeping. In Russia and the Latin countries, ...
TOM CLARK - http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/

Another google-alert link mentions Nabokov's opinion about editors ( Lish has been discussed by the list, also): 

3quarksdaily
By Morgan Meis
Vladimir Nabokov referred to editors as “pompous avuncular brutes.” T.S. Eliot said that many of them were just “failed writers.” And Kingsley Amis, that laureate of cantankerousness, spoke of how the worst kind ...
3quarksdaily - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/

 

 

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