Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0000148, Wed, 17 Nov 1993 14:27:28 -0800

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VN & GQ
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NABOKOVIANS:
Gene Barabtarlo, current president of the INS, has sent me two
unrelated items for your delectation. The tonality and commentary are the
responsibility of your net editor, not Professor Barabtarlo.

1: Those of you who are already subscribers to GQ (Gentleman's Quarterly?)
are already aware of this, so for the rest of us--in the October issue
there is an article (interview? profile?) of Governor Weld of Massachusetts
(who, I [DBJ] hear, has been mentioned as a possible [Republican] Presidential
material.) "In literature his tastes run to the dry complexities of
Vladimir Nabokov -- `The greatest novelist of the 20th century, no question,
just a phrase can stay with me for decades, many of them...he's by far the
most brilliant writer I've encountered'."

2: The Vladimir Nabokov Society has launched the long and arduous process
of persuading the Post Office to issue a Nabokov stamp. But let's face it,
we aren't talking Elvis here. Maybe the $10,000 stamp?