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EDNOTE. Ryan Asmussen, inter alia, is/was the drummer in the group
"Fathouse" whose CD "a pin, a cork, and a card" reproduces a sheet of VN's
collected butterfly specimens.
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To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:22 AM
Subject: VN & Woolf
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> Dear Irina,
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> Surprisingly (I find), VN was not at all a fan. According to Boyd, "As
> research for 'The Admiralty Spire,' Nabokov had read 'all' of Virginia
Woolf
> [...] and felt his critical talons twitch. He thought ORLANDO a
'first-class
> example of poshlost' [...]" (page 402, paperback of RUSSIAN YEARS).
> Presumably, he felt the interior monologue a shabby literary practice,
> incapable of capturing the ideas, caprices, etc., of the human mind. See
304-
> 305 in Boyd.
>
> Best,
>
> Ryan Asmussen
"Fathouse" whose CD "a pin, a cork, and a card" reproduces a sheet of VN's
collected butterfly specimens.
----- Original Message -----
From: <rra@bu.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:22 AM
Subject: VN & Woolf
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (13
lines) ------------------
> Dear Irina,
>
> Surprisingly (I find), VN was not at all a fan. According to Boyd, "As
> research for 'The Admiralty Spire,' Nabokov had read 'all' of Virginia
Woolf
> [...] and felt his critical talons twitch. He thought ORLANDO a
'first-class
> example of poshlost' [...]" (page 402, paperback of RUSSIAN YEARS).
> Presumably, he felt the interior monologue a shabby literary practice,
> incapable of capturing the ideas, caprices, etc., of the human mind. See
304-
> 305 in Boyd.
>
> Best,
>
> Ryan Asmussen