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Date: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:19 PM +1200
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: 'Vladimir Nabokov Forum' <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: RE: ADA "the greatest novel written in the English language"
------------------ Dear All,
I was amused to see this blog from June 24 at
http://www.crescatsententia.org/archives/2004_06_24.html
while surfing the net. Note the accurate judgment of Brian Boyd's "sometimes
too-complete notes" (but what can I do? better to over-explain and prompt
readers to skip than under-explain and have readers think VN has slipped)
and the confident rating of ADA.
Brian Boyd
JOY!
Will Baude at 11:41 AM
This will be of interest to nobody but me and the other two Ada-lovers on
the web, but the curious Nabokov site Zembla is launching a project called
ADAOnline, which will put the entire text of Ada, complete with Brian Boyd's
sometimes too-complete notes from the Nabokovian, online.
Ada, is, of course, Nabokov's greatest novel, and coincidentally the
greatest novel written in the English language. [Contra William Jefferson
Clinton.]
Oh, and the folks there are also looking for volunteers to help encode the
rest of the novel. Anybody with lots of time handy who is looking to be
acknowledged on the site should email Jeff Edmunds: jhe2 at psulias dot psu
dot edu.
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D. Barton Johnson
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Date: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:19 PM +1200
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: 'Vladimir Nabokov Forum' <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: RE: ADA "the greatest novel written in the English language"
------------------ Dear All,
I was amused to see this blog from June 24 at
http://www.crescatsententia.org/archives/2004_06_24.html
while surfing the net. Note the accurate judgment of Brian Boyd's "sometimes
too-complete notes" (but what can I do? better to over-explain and prompt
readers to skip than under-explain and have readers think VN has slipped)
and the confident rating of ADA.
Brian Boyd
JOY!
Will Baude at 11:41 AM
This will be of interest to nobody but me and the other two Ada-lovers on
the web, but the curious Nabokov site Zembla is launching a project called
ADAOnline, which will put the entire text of Ada, complete with Brian Boyd's
sometimes too-complete notes from the Nabokovian, online.
Ada, is, of course, Nabokov's greatest novel, and coincidentally the
greatest novel written in the English language. [Contra William Jefferson
Clinton.]
Oh, and the folks there are also looking for volunteers to help encode the
rest of the novel. Anybody with lots of time handy who is looking to be
acknowledged on the site should email Jeff Edmunds: jhe2 at psulias dot psu
dot edu.
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L