M.Voss: Up to a point I do enjoy all
that brainstorming that passes nowadays as
NABOKV-L, but time and again I wish participants in that
brainstorming would post
fewer contributions and instead do some research before confronting the
sorely
tested public of this list with their jeux
d'esprit.
Jansy: M. Voss called our
attention to some kind of "imposture". He suggests there must be a
Platonic Nabokov-L lying somewhere outside time and space. Why not apply the
virtual thunderbolts of Zeus over his own virtual
realm and press more often the "delete" button instead of
toppling Babel?
It seems that we,
poor human beings affected by language, would turn into a heap of ashes just by
looking at such grandeur. I hope our EDs can keep baby Dionysus safe
from the strictures of the academe ( there's enough earthly space for all
of us) so that we can blunder bt. Erewhon and Anti-terra, where
instead of no we find here and now.
By the way ( oops?), checking in my fast
manner, I read that Samuel Butler called "Mesopotamia" his far, far
away plot of land. I wonder if Boutteilan and Bottle had ever worked
for him, too.