Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011740, Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:57:21 -0700

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Fwd: Re: ADAonline update
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>>>All of ADA's text except II.3 and II.7 is now available and
searchable at ADAonline, http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/ada/
index.htm.<<<

One of the reasons it is not okay to be a Luddite.

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EDNOTE. It is possible to be a good Luddite literary scholar but it is
certainly a self-limiting procedure. And, of course, plain old "close reading"
is PRE-requisite to computer-enhanced investigation. Any scholar or serious
reader who fails to take advantage of Boyd et al's On-Line ADA is shooting
him/her-self in the foot.