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Tori,
Any chance youпїЅre thinking of the пїЅmothingпїЅ at the end of Bend Sinister? Maybe mixing it up with the
conversation in Lolita?
Alain
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> On Oct 29, 2017, at 10:39 AM, VN Alexander <alexander@DACTYL.ORG> wrote:
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> Dear Nabokovians,
>
> Please help me remember in which novel the narrator mentions having a chat with an entomologist interested in moths. I believe they met at night, outside a motel where there was a porch light on attracting moths. I may be misremembering these details.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Yours lazily,
>
> Tori Alexander
>
>
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Any chance youпїЅre thinking of the пїЅmothingпїЅ at the end of Bend Sinister? Maybe mixing it up with the
conversation in Lolita?
Alain
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 10:39 AM, VN Alexander <alexander@DACTYL.ORG> wrote:
>
> Dear Nabokovians,
>
> Please help me remember in which novel the narrator mentions having a chat with an entomologist interested in moths. I believe they met at night, outside a motel where there was a porch light on attracting moths. I may be misremembering these details.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Yours lazily,
>
> Tori Alexander
>
>
> --
> ______________________________
> VN Alexander, PhD
> Director, Dactyl Foundation
> Public Scholar, NY Council for the Humanities
> www.victorianalexander.com
> www.dactylfoundation.org
>
> Search archive with Google:
> http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
>
> Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,dana.dragunoiu@gmail.com,shvabrin@humnet.ucla.edu
> Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
> Nabokov Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/257
> Chercheurs Enchantes: http://www.vladimir-nabokov.org/association/chercheurs-enchantes/73
> Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
> Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
> AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
> The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
> The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
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Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokov Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/257
Chercheurs Enchantes: http://www.vladimir-nabokov.org/association/chercheurs-enchantes/73
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
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