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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:01:10 -0400
From: George Shimanovich <gshiman@optonline.net>
Reply-To: George Shimanovich <gshiman@optonline.net>
Subject: RE: Re: Shapiro on Dolinin on Shapiro Response
To: 'Vladimir Nabokov Forum' dolinin@wisc.edu
>EDNOTE. I find the ad hominem attitude of this message distasteful and
would
>urge all subsequent contributors to avoid personal invective.
There is interesting cultural aspect to this discussion. On one hand, group
of people use non ad hominem language to express arguably, if not so,
distasteful attitude (quoted passages from chapter 'Nabokov as Russian
writer' by Mr. Dolinin and Morgan's spam qualify). Then, there are people
busy protecting something they view as honorable that relates to Nabokov and
his oeuvre, or just honorable, using language that some observers
characterize (or, may be, label?) ad hominem. Well, as someone who described
Machado de Assis in context of Nabokov's passage from TT as 'another corpse'
or misdirected message in which he suggested that someone related to VN 'can
hang himself' over Livry, the author of above EDNOTE probably feels closer
to the first group. But that does not retract from honor, that vocal, in a
Russian way, non-Russian thing that both Sirin and Nabokov shared and people
with values must practice. The thing that flares here and there,
illuminating Nabokov-L. Come back home, Mr. Dolinin.
George Shimanovich
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