In a message dated 20/01/2009 20:42:17 GMT Standard Time, nabokv-l@UTK.EDU
writes:
For the
Obama inauguration, on France 2 TV Bernard-Henri Lévy said that Nabokov always
said that one can judge a man by the way he speaks. He was speaking French and
there was no direct quotation, but can anyone identify the source, when and
where Nabokov related this?
Nabokov ALWAYS said this? How would one reconcile this with Nabokov's
written assertion: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author,
and I speak like a child"?
Anthony Stadlen