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Sighting: David Foster Wallace's Roll Call
Adam Plunkett's N+1 memoir and appreciation of David Foster Wallace as a
teacher<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adamplunkett.com%2Fuploads%2F1%2F5%2F6%2F2%2F15629174%2Fking_of_the_ghosts_--_uncut.pdf>
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this Nabokov-minded bit:
*It took a student a few seconds to answer when called on “Joseph Reynolds,
light of my life, fire of my loins” (name changed to protect privacy). My
own soft underbelly was spoken (if not written) politeness, a Midwestern
habit of deference and sorrys and if-you-don’t-minds my Midwestern teacher
invariably mentioned or mocked or prodded in a mild recursive torment,
recursive because politeness tends to be polite about itself.*
--
Juan Martinez
-- http://www.fulmerford.com
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Adam Plunkett's N+1 memoir and appreciation of David Foster Wallace as a
teacher<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adamplunkett.com%2Fuploads%2F1%2F5%2F6%2F2%2F15629174%2Fking_of_the_ghosts_--_uncut.pdf>
features
this Nabokov-minded bit:
*It took a student a few seconds to answer when called on “Joseph Reynolds,
light of my life, fire of my loins” (name changed to protect privacy). My
own soft underbelly was spoken (if not written) politeness, a Midwestern
habit of deference and sorrys and if-you-don’t-minds my Midwestern teacher
invariably mentioned or mocked or prodded in a mild recursive torment,
recursive because politeness tends to be polite about itself.*
--
Juan Martinez
-- http://www.fulmerford.com
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,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/