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Nabokov mentions (fwd)
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From: Earl Sampson <esampson@cu.campus.mci.net>
The name Nabokov appears twice in the Daedalus Books Late Spring 1997
catalog: The first sentence of the blurb for THE LOGODAEDALIAN'S
DICTIONARY OF INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL WORDS, by George Stone Saussy III,
reads "What do such weird and wonderful words as _oology_ and _photic_
(used bu Nabokov and Beckett, Anthony Burgess and John Fowles) actually
mean?" (Does anyone know where, or if, these two words occur in
Nabokov?)
And from the description of HOMO POETICUS: ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS, by Danilo
Kis: "Here is Kis on nationalism as kitsch and collective paranoia,...on
literature's struggle against banality, as well as on writers as different
as Nabokov and Sade."
And this last item is not a mention of Nabokov, but a statement that all of
us will immediately associate with VN: in a local publication's interview
with the controversial paleontologist and dinosaur expert (and consultant
on JURASSIC PARK) Robert Bakker, Bakker is quoted as saying "Artists can
see the world more clearly than scientists. Art is broadening and science,
if you're not careful,can be narrowing. The best artists are scientists."
Earl Sampson
Boulder CO
The name Nabokov appears twice in the Daedalus Books Late Spring 1997
catalog: The first sentence of the blurb for THE LOGODAEDALIAN'S
DICTIONARY OF INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL WORDS, by George Stone Saussy III,
reads "What do such weird and wonderful words as _oology_ and _photic_
(used bu Nabokov and Beckett, Anthony Burgess and John Fowles) actually
mean?" (Does anyone know where, or if, these two words occur in
Nabokov?)
And from the description of HOMO POETICUS: ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS, by Danilo
Kis: "Here is Kis on nationalism as kitsch and collective paranoia,...on
literature's struggle against banality, as well as on writers as different
as Nabokov and Sade."
And this last item is not a mention of Nabokov, but a statement that all of
us will immediately associate with VN: in a local publication's interview
with the controversial paleontologist and dinosaur expert (and consultant
on JURASSIC PARK) Robert Bakker, Bakker is quoted as saying "Artists can
see the world more clearly than scientists. Art is broadening and science,
if you're not careful,can be narrowing. The best artists are scientists."
Earl Sampson
Boulder CO