DN: GENTLEMEN: THE CARDS WERE
138, NOT 50, AND THE GEMS STILL IN THE "BARREL" ARE MANY.
Stan K-Bootle wrote: "It's time
for all good Nabokovians to come to Dmitri's aid. The tough decision has been
made. I rejoice that we'll get to see whatever survived of Laura! Idly pondering
and browsing, I thought of Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost," labours which
have now been "Wonne!"
JM: I join Stan K-B's invitation
to "come to Dmitri's aid ...after the tough decision has been made" and the gems
in the barrel are a hundred and thirty-eight... Love's Labours
Wonne. I keep trying to imagine how these cards are going to be
published. I hope that we can get facsimiles of the cards themselves in a
nice small box ( like another one VN kept with some of his sentences which he
thought he might use one day and he let an interviewer leaf through, as related
in "Strong Opinions").
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