Subject
VN & Ducornet (fwd)
Date
Body
------------------
>From: Earl Sampson <esampson@cu.campus.mci.net>
>
> "' I write a book I want to read,' says the author. '. . . I think of
>an ideal reader, which would sort of be me at my smartest.'"
>
> That last virtually paraphrases something VN said somewhere. Who
>remembers where, and what his exact words were?
Response from Nick Grundy: Could be "I do not write for groups, nor
approve of group therapy (the big
scene in the Freudian farce); as I have said often enough, I write for
myself in multiplicate, a not unfamiliar phenomenon on the horizon of
shimmering deserts."
This is from the New York Times website,
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-v-things.html
but it may not be the one you were thinking of.
Nick.
::::::nmg20@hermes.cam.ac.uk:::0958 714062::::::
>From: Earl Sampson <esampson@cu.campus.mci.net>
>
> "' I write a book I want to read,' says the author. '. . . I think of
>an ideal reader, which would sort of be me at my smartest.'"
>
> That last virtually paraphrases something VN said somewhere. Who
>remembers where, and what his exact words were?
Response from Nick Grundy: Could be "I do not write for groups, nor
approve of group therapy (the big
scene in the Freudian farce); as I have said often enough, I write for
myself in multiplicate, a not unfamiliar phenomenon on the horizon of
shimmering deserts."
This is from the New York Times website,
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-v-things.html
but it may not be the one you were thinking of.
Nick.
::::::nmg20@hermes.cam.ac.uk:::0958 714062::::::