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Re: Freud & Umbrellas (fwd)
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From: EJUSERS <EJNICOL@root.indstate.edu>
I have looked back at *Strong Opinions* and I was in error. The
interview on page 116 is not the filmed BBC interview, and its
mention of Freud and an umbrella is not the memorable one, which is
indeed in the filmed Hughes interview. Unfortunately, that part of the film
is not included in *Strong Opinions*. On page 51, Nabokov states
that much of the filmed interview was left out of the book because it
was "too colloquial and rambling." The great Freud/umbrella quote is
in the BBC filmed interview but not in *Strong Opinions*.
I therefore withdraw my statement that the quote was probably
misremembered from the film, as I was looking in the wrong place.
Your correspondent probably had it right.
Charles Nicol
I have looked back at *Strong Opinions* and I was in error. The
interview on page 116 is not the filmed BBC interview, and its
mention of Freud and an umbrella is not the memorable one, which is
indeed in the filmed Hughes interview. Unfortunately, that part of the film
is not included in *Strong Opinions*. On page 51, Nabokov states
that much of the filmed interview was left out of the book because it
was "too colloquial and rambling." The great Freud/umbrella quote is
in the BBC filmed interview but not in *Strong Opinions*.
I therefore withdraw my statement that the quote was probably
misremembered from the film, as I was looking in the wrong place.
Your correspondent probably had it right.
Charles Nicol