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Re: DRAGONLANCE THOUGHTS (fwd)
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> EDITOR'S COMMENT. DRAGONLANCE, author of the posting below forwarded via
> Sandy Klein <taxi@flinet.com>, offers his thoughts on various matters
> Nabokovian:
> 1) LOLITA & the Decline of the West (as proclaimed by the London
> _Daily Mail_ journalist William Oddie and by his U.S. counterparts).
> NABOKV-L ran portions of his column which were reproduced in this
> summer's exchange on the Lyne-Schiff "Lolita."
> 2) Introducing VN to the younger set.
> 3) Russian translations of VN's English works
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (53 lines) ------------=
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> ZEMBLAN JEFF:
>=20
> IS THIS NOT A REFERENCE TO THE SELFSAME BRITISH ODDIE WHO, I HEAR IN NEW
> YORK, IS RUNNING NECK & NECK WITH CLOWN PRINCE HATCH OF THE U.S. SENATE
> FOR SOME SORT OF BOOBY PRIZE?
>=20
> WOULDN'T KNOW MAH-SELF, FR'AH DON' READ THEM CONTROVER-SHEE-AL
> PIECES A'TRASH. AH JES' FIGURE WHERE THER'S SMOKE THERE'S
> JES' GOTTA BE FIRE - - LIKE THAT CHAP ODDIE SAYS IN THE
> BRIT PAPER THEY SHOWN ME - - DAILY MAIL OR SOMETHIN' - -
> Y'KNOW, LIKE OUR DAILY EN-QUIRER? - - THAT THAR FAMOUS
> EK-DIZZA-AST - - AH MEAN ECCLESIAST - - ANYWAY SOME KINDA
> AST - - THOUGH DURNED IF AH DIDN'T SEE AN ODDIE IN THE
> ODD- COUPLE COLUMN OF THAT THAR THUNDERBOLT MAGAZINE IN THE
> BIG CITY ONE TIME. ANYWAY AH'M SURE HE DIDN'T NEED TO READ
> THE BOOK. SAYS OL'HUMBET KILLED HIS WIFE CHARLOTTE, BUT AH
> RECALL SURE AS SHOOTIN' SHE GOT HIT BY A CAR IN THE
> MOO-VIE - - COURSE AH DIDN'T SEE THAT NEE-THER. SAYS THE
> RE- -MAKE'S GOTTA BE STOPPED TOO, AND AH SURE DON'T BLAME =91IM.
> IF THEY EVER FINISH THAT MOVIE AN' OL' ECKDISIAST ODDIE EVER
> SEES IT, HE'S GOTTA TURN OUT TO BE RIGHT, I JES' KNOW IT..
> YOU CAN FEEL THEM THINGS IN YOUR BONES. SAYS THIS WHOLE
> L0-LI-TA FIRE-OF-MY-LOINS BUSINESS IS AN INCITEMENT TO
> ARSON, IN THE FIRST PLACE. SAYS THAT, AND JAZZ, AND THEM
> BEATLES, AND THAT THAR PLAYBOY MAG-A-ZINE GONE AND CHANGED
> OUR SO-CIETY, MADE IT PER-MISSIVE. ARSON MY ARSON, PARSON,
> WITH ALL DUE RESPECT - - THIS HERE IS THE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE
> OF THE JUDGEMENT DAY. ......'COURSE SOME FOLKS DO SAY
> REASON THE REVEREND DON'T READ NO BOOKS IS HE BL'EEVES IN
> OLD BRITISH REE-LIGION AN' ITS PRE- L0-LEE-TA TRADITIONS.
> FOLKS SAY HE'S TOO BUSY TO READ BOOKS =91CAUSE HE SPENDS =91IS
> TIME IS A CLOSET SMELLIN' =91IS CHOIRBOYS' UN-DEE-SHORTS.
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> FOSTER % GREAT GOLLIWOGG:
>=20
> STORIES, YES, TO BEGIN DAZZLING THE YOUNG, BUT THE VIKING PORTABLE IS A
> FOND, BRIEF, RARE RELIC OF THE PAST, WHILE THE NEW VINTAGE PAPERBACK IS
> SIXTY-FIVE (65) TALES THICK, AND WITH A HARD-COVER ELFIN LACUNE FILLED.
>=20
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> AS FOR CANDIDATE IL'YN, G.G., THE RUSSKYS LOPE IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO
> TREAD, & ALL THEIR ADAS HAVE BEEN HELLISH.
>=20
> DRAGONLANCE
> EDITOR'S COMMENT. DRAGONLANCE, author of the posting below forwarded via
> Sandy Klein <taxi@flinet.com>, offers his thoughts on various matters
> Nabokovian:
> 1) LOLITA & the Decline of the West (as proclaimed by the London
> _Daily Mail_ journalist William Oddie and by his U.S. counterparts).
> NABOKV-L ran portions of his column which were reproduced in this
> summer's exchange on the Lyne-Schiff "Lolita."
> 2) Introducing VN to the younger set.
> 3) Russian translations of VN's English works
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (53 lines) ------------=
------
> ZEMBLAN JEFF:
>=20
> IS THIS NOT A REFERENCE TO THE SELFSAME BRITISH ODDIE WHO, I HEAR IN NEW
> YORK, IS RUNNING NECK & NECK WITH CLOWN PRINCE HATCH OF THE U.S. SENATE
> FOR SOME SORT OF BOOBY PRIZE?
>=20
> WOULDN'T KNOW MAH-SELF, FR'AH DON' READ THEM CONTROVER-SHEE-AL
> PIECES A'TRASH. AH JES' FIGURE WHERE THER'S SMOKE THERE'S
> JES' GOTTA BE FIRE - - LIKE THAT CHAP ODDIE SAYS IN THE
> BRIT PAPER THEY SHOWN ME - - DAILY MAIL OR SOMETHIN' - -
> Y'KNOW, LIKE OUR DAILY EN-QUIRER? - - THAT THAR FAMOUS
> EK-DIZZA-AST - - AH MEAN ECCLESIAST - - ANYWAY SOME KINDA
> AST - - THOUGH DURNED IF AH DIDN'T SEE AN ODDIE IN THE
> ODD- COUPLE COLUMN OF THAT THAR THUNDERBOLT MAGAZINE IN THE
> BIG CITY ONE TIME. ANYWAY AH'M SURE HE DIDN'T NEED TO READ
> THE BOOK. SAYS OL'HUMBET KILLED HIS WIFE CHARLOTTE, BUT AH
> RECALL SURE AS SHOOTIN' SHE GOT HIT BY A CAR IN THE
> MOO-VIE - - COURSE AH DIDN'T SEE THAT NEE-THER. SAYS THE
> RE- -MAKE'S GOTTA BE STOPPED TOO, AND AH SURE DON'T BLAME =91IM.
> IF THEY EVER FINISH THAT MOVIE AN' OL' ECKDISIAST ODDIE EVER
> SEES IT, HE'S GOTTA TURN OUT TO BE RIGHT, I JES' KNOW IT..
> YOU CAN FEEL THEM THINGS IN YOUR BONES. SAYS THIS WHOLE
> L0-LI-TA FIRE-OF-MY-LOINS BUSINESS IS AN INCITEMENT TO
> ARSON, IN THE FIRST PLACE. SAYS THAT, AND JAZZ, AND THEM
> BEATLES, AND THAT THAR PLAYBOY MAG-A-ZINE GONE AND CHANGED
> OUR SO-CIETY, MADE IT PER-MISSIVE. ARSON MY ARSON, PARSON,
> WITH ALL DUE RESPECT - - THIS HERE IS THE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE
> OF THE JUDGEMENT DAY. ......'COURSE SOME FOLKS DO SAY
> REASON THE REVEREND DON'T READ NO BOOKS IS HE BL'EEVES IN
> OLD BRITISH REE-LIGION AN' ITS PRE- L0-LEE-TA TRADITIONS.
> FOLKS SAY HE'S TOO BUSY TO READ BOOKS =91CAUSE HE SPENDS =91IS
> TIME IS A CLOSET SMELLIN' =91IS CHOIRBOYS' UN-DEE-SHORTS.
>=20
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>=20
> FOSTER % GREAT GOLLIWOGG:
>=20
> STORIES, YES, TO BEGIN DAZZLING THE YOUNG, BUT THE VIKING PORTABLE IS A
> FOND, BRIEF, RARE RELIC OF THE PAST, WHILE THE NEW VINTAGE PAPERBACK IS
> SIXTY-FIVE (65) TALES THICK, AND WITH A HARD-COVER ELFIN LACUNE FILLED.
>=20
> =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=
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>=20
> AS FOR CANDIDATE IL'YN, G.G., THE RUSSKYS LOPE IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO
> TREAD, & ALL THEIR ADAS HAVE BEEN HELLISH.
>=20
> DRAGONLANCE