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From: "Sergej Aksenov" <aksenov@onetel.net.uk>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> > From: Carolyn Kunin
> > To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:06 PM
> > Subject: Poor Hazel - reply to Mr Bolt
> >
> > There are a number of ugly women who have been successful - in love
among
> > other things. Mrs Roosevelt comes to mind; the fictional giantess,
Liesl,
> > in Robertson Davies' "Fifth Business" comes to mind, and the
> > non-fictional Pancho Barnes (read her biography "The Happy Bottom Riding
> > Club" for a very good time). There are many others, I assure you.
>
> Sybil entirely agrees (PF 320-325):
>
> 'But this is prejudice! You should rejoice
> That she is innocent. Why overstress
> The physical? She _wants_ to look a mess.
> Virgins have written some _resplendent_ books.
> Lovemaking is not everything. Good looks
> Are not _that_ indispensable!'
>
> > An intelligent young woman with "great force of personality," who is
> > greatly loved by her doting mother and father, does not commit suicide
> > because she is ugly. No amount of empathy makes this believable.
>
> > Carolyn Kunin
>
>
From: "Sergej Aksenov" <aksenov@onetel.net.uk>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Carolyn Kunin
> > To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:06 PM
> > Subject: Poor Hazel - reply to Mr Bolt
> >
> > There are a number of ugly women who have been successful - in love
among
> > other things. Mrs Roosevelt comes to mind; the fictional giantess,
Liesl,
> > in Robertson Davies' "Fifth Business" comes to mind, and the
> > non-fictional Pancho Barnes (read her biography "The Happy Bottom Riding
> > Club" for a very good time). There are many others, I assure you.
>
> Sybil entirely agrees (PF 320-325):
>
> 'But this is prejudice! You should rejoice
> That she is innocent. Why overstress
> The physical? She _wants_ to look a mess.
> Virgins have written some _resplendent_ books.
> Lovemaking is not everything. Good looks
> Are not _that_ indispensable!'
>
> > An intelligent young woman with "great force of personality," who is
> > greatly loved by her doting mother and father, does not commit suicide
> > because she is ugly. No amount of empathy makes this believable.
>
> > Carolyn Kunin
>
>