Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0012014, Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:13:58 -0800

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Fwd: Re: Bobbie Ann Mason & ADA
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Don -- Is it possible that Bobbie Ann Mason is the best kind of
beneficiary of Nabokov, mainly because she doesn't sound anything like
him? I sometimes think the best lesson any great artist can impart is
not to be like them but to be like no one else, and Mason always struck
me as a real original who forged her own path.

Rodney Welch

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EDNOTE. You are right, I suppose. It's just that I lust for a glittering,
ornate prose style. Ruined by VN I fear.