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Re: THOUGHTS re: Three Meetings parody
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Right! Wow, how did I get that mixed up? The Hopalong-Freud author was IRA
Wallach. I hadn't read any Nabokov in 1970 (I was 12) so I don't know where
I ran into that piece. Well, now it will be in the archives for future
forgetters. --Tim
The Three Meetings parody was written by the late, sorely missed (and
> underappreciated) Stanley Elkin, not the actor Eli Wallach, and appeared in
> the Nabokov "70th Birthday Tribute" issue of 1970. To paraphrase one of the
> characters potrayed onscreen by Wallach, "There are two kinds of people in
> this world, my friend. Those who skillfully parody Vladimir Nabokov, and
> those who don't."
>
> >>>>>>>>This reminds me -- does anyone remember a Nabokov parody called
> "Three Meetings" by Eli Wallach? It's long out of print, but the bit I
> recall is his discovery of the Lightly Salted butterfly, "bug pennants,
> bucking....choppy flags of the forest". This book I think was named for much
> funnier parody (wouldn't it be?) of Eliot, a takeoff on "The Cocktail Party"
> called Hopalong-Freud, which ends with the audience kneeling and singing
> Adeste, Fideles.
> --Tim Henderson
>
>
>
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Wallach. I hadn't read any Nabokov in 1970 (I was 12) so I don't know where
I ran into that piece. Well, now it will be in the archives for future
forgetters. --Tim
The Three Meetings parody was written by the late, sorely missed (and
> underappreciated) Stanley Elkin, not the actor Eli Wallach, and appeared in
> the Nabokov "70th Birthday Tribute" issue of 1970. To paraphrase one of the
> characters potrayed onscreen by Wallach, "There are two kinds of people in
> this world, my friend. Those who skillfully parody Vladimir Nabokov, and
> those who don't."
>
> >>>>>>>>This reminds me -- does anyone remember a Nabokov parody called
> "Three Meetings" by Eli Wallach? It's long out of print, but the bit I
> recall is his discovery of the Lightly Salted butterfly, "bug pennants,
> bucking....choppy flags of the forest". This book I think was named for much
> funnier parody (wouldn't it be?) of Eliot, a takeoff on "The Cocktail Party"
> called Hopalong-Freud, which ends with the audience kneeling and singing
> Adeste, Fideles.
> --Tim Henderson
>
>
>
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