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EDNOTE. I haven't checked Lubin's text (which is available in full in ZEMBLA.
While I agree that identifying the Eliot quotes is not in itself "dazzling,"
the essay as a whole is indeed dazzling.
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:45:44 EST
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In a message dated 29/11/2005 18:05:12 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net
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> Foster mentions Nabokov 's praise of Peter Lubin for "his absolutely
> dazzling scholarship" in the discovery of these three words in Eliot's Four
> Quartets
Is this meant unironically? If VN said this, he must have meant it as a joke.
Anyone who knew Four Quartets tolerably well would instantly recognise the
allusion, as I -- a 22-year-old mathematics student at the time -- did on first
reading Pale Fire when it came out in 1962.
Anthony Stadlen
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While I agree that identifying the Eliot quotes is not in itself "dazzling,"
the essay as a whole is indeed dazzling.
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:45:44 EST
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Subject: Re: Crawford: Essay on John Burt Foster article re Pale Fire
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In a message dated 29/11/2005 18:05:12 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net
writes:
> Foster mentions Nabokov 's praise of Peter Lubin for "his absolutely
> dazzling scholarship" in the discovery of these three words in Eliot's Four
> Quartets
Is this meant unironically? If VN said this, he must have meant it as a joke.
Anyone who knew Four Quartets tolerably well would instantly recognise the
allusion, as I -- a 22-year-old mathematics student at the time -- did on first
reading Pale Fire when it came out in 1962.
Anthony Stadlen
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