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Mr Wood and the "leggy thing"
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"Wood is doing here exactly what Wilson said the genuine critic
should do: he is taking a writerly interest in how things work. But
that is not all he is doing; he is also in the middle of making a
rather ambitious argument about the development of the modern novel
since Flaubert."
Perhaps too ambitious? I have nothing against Mr Wood, but surely
Pnin thinks in Russian? especially in moments of panic. I think
"leggy thing" is pure perfect Nabokovian English, but perhaps Alexey
can translate "leggy thing" for us back into a possible Pninian
Russian expression?
Carolyn Kunin
> p.s. Now that I think about it, I find that "leggy thing" conjures
> up perfectly the image of inanimate object perversely and
> purposely evading Pnin's grasp with a little leap of willful disdain.
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should do: he is taking a writerly interest in how things work. But
that is not all he is doing; he is also in the middle of making a
rather ambitious argument about the development of the modern novel
since Flaubert."
Perhaps too ambitious? I have nothing against Mr Wood, but surely
Pnin thinks in Russian? especially in moments of panic. I think
"leggy thing" is pure perfect Nabokovian English, but perhaps Alexey
can translate "leggy thing" for us back into a possible Pninian
Russian expression?
Carolyn Kunin
> p.s. Now that I think about it, I find that "leggy thing" conjures
> up perfectly the image of inanimate object perversely and
> purposely evading Pnin's grasp with a little leap of willful disdain.
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