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Fwd: Re: three Nabokovian blunders in Ada
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Dear Jo,
Alas(s) I was just joking. I thought your "blunders" idea was ridiculous - -
or to be brutally honest - - I thought it was intellectually dishonest and
intentionally misleading. My reference to gender-bending was satiric. You
don't seem very sensitive to tone, not to Nabokov's and not even to mine.
Carolyn
> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:21:32 -0700
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Fw: three Nabokovian blunders in Ada
>
> Thanks Carolyn for drawing attention to the 'gender-bending' nature of two
> of the 'blunders' Nabokov inserted into Ada. Another example of Nabokov's
> gender-bending strategy can be found in Pale Fire where Charles Kinbote
> plays a Carrollian-style game of "World Golf" and transmutes the
> word 'lass' into 'male' in four moves (see PF, 262).
>
> Jo Morgan
> Sydney
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Alas(s) I was just joking. I thought your "blunders" idea was ridiculous - -
or to be brutally honest - - I thought it was intellectually dishonest and
intentionally misleading. My reference to gender-bending was satiric. You
don't seem very sensitive to tone, not to Nabokov's and not even to mine.
Carolyn
> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:21:32 -0700
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Fw: three Nabokovian blunders in Ada
>
> Thanks Carolyn for drawing attention to the 'gender-bending' nature of two
> of the 'blunders' Nabokov inserted into Ada. Another example of Nabokov's
> gender-bending strategy can be found in Pale Fire where Charles Kinbote
> plays a Carrollian-style game of "World Golf" and transmutes the
> word 'lass' into 'male' in four moves (see PF, 262).
>
> Jo Morgan
> Sydney
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