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EDITOR: AND THE "FULMERFORD REWARD GOES TO JENNIFER PARSONS!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Parsons" <jdparsons@shaw.ca>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: VN reading list
>
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> There was a 1964 Playboy interview in which this question was asked of
> VN: "What do you want to accomplish or leave behind-- or
> should this be of no concern to the writer?"
>
> VN's response was:
>
> "Well, in this matter of accomplishment, of course, I don't
> have a 35-year plan or program, but I have a fair inkling of my
> literary afterlife. I have sensed certain hints, I have felt
> the breeze of certain promises. No doubt there will be ups and
> downs, long periods of slump. With the Devil's connivance, I
> open a newspaper of 2063 and in some article on the books page
> I find: "Nobody reads Nabokov or Fulmerford today." Awful
> question: Who is this unfortunate Fulmerford?"
> ---------------------------------------------------
> "D. Barton Johnson" wrote:
> >
> > Editor's Note: Juan Martinez has an interesting VN webpage well worth
> > checking out.
> > An inconsequential reward for the first person to identify the source
for
> > Juan's web page address--Fulmerford.
> > >> Regarding professor Boyd's reading list - - there is a small and
> > > partial one of the books alluded to in _Ada_ over in my web site, at
> > >
> > > http://www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/antiterra.html
> > >
> > > It might serve as an OKish starting point, but it is pretty much all
> > > cribbed from Boyd's endnotes to the LoA edition.
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Juan
> > >
> > > - - http://www.fulmerford.com
> > >
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Parsons" <jdparsons@shaw.ca>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: VN reading list
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (45
lines) ------------------
> There was a 1964 Playboy interview in which this question was asked of
> VN: "What do you want to accomplish or leave behind-- or
> should this be of no concern to the writer?"
>
> VN's response was:
>
> "Well, in this matter of accomplishment, of course, I don't
> have a 35-year plan or program, but I have a fair inkling of my
> literary afterlife. I have sensed certain hints, I have felt
> the breeze of certain promises. No doubt there will be ups and
> downs, long periods of slump. With the Devil's connivance, I
> open a newspaper of 2063 and in some article on the books page
> I find: "Nobody reads Nabokov or Fulmerford today." Awful
> question: Who is this unfortunate Fulmerford?"
> ---------------------------------------------------
> "D. Barton Johnson" wrote:
> >
> > Editor's Note: Juan Martinez has an interesting VN webpage well worth
> > checking out.
> > An inconsequential reward for the first person to identify the source
for
> > Juan's web page address--Fulmerford.
> > >> Regarding professor Boyd's reading list - - there is a small and
> > > partial one of the books alluded to in _Ada_ over in my web site, at
> > >
> > > http://www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/antiterra.html
> > >
> > > It might serve as an OKish starting point, but it is pretty much all
> > > cribbed from Boyd's endnotes to the LoA edition.
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Juan
> > >
> > > - - http://www.fulmerford.com
> > >