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Sandy, just imagine (this is a thought-experiment): in 500 years time, some
scholar encounters the archaic verb to nabocover. Judging from the
palimpsestuous context, It seems to have meant to criticize curmudgeonly
with a refined mix of erudition and disdain. The word¹s etymology triggers
much argufaction. Some relate it to nabob, a wealthy elitist. Others to
Nabokov, an obscure 20th-century writer and ice-hockey player ...
Stan Kelly-Bootle
> On 08/06/2010 12:38, "Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@HOTMAIL.COM> CITED:
> Geeky Professor to Sex Icon
>
> Nabokov¹s path to Playboy was a far cry from that of Hugh Hefner¹s bunnies.
> Nabokov was a Russian émigré, writer, scholar, chessproblem creator and
> butterfly collector. He came to the United States in 1940 to teach Russian
> literature. Having already established a name for himself with his Russian
> language books, he traveled around the country teaching at Stanford, Wellesley
> and Harvard. In 1948 Nabokov was lured from the banks of the Charles River to
> the hills of Ithaca to head the Russian Department at Cornell University,
> though the department never materialized during his tenure. The first course
> he taught was Russian Literature, which Nabocovered Tolstoy, Gogol, Turgenev
> and eventually Pushkin. Later on, he taught European Literature, in which he
> delivered his now-famous lectures on James Joyce¹s masterpiece, ³Ulysses.²
>
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scholar encounters the archaic verb to nabocover. Judging from the
palimpsestuous context, It seems to have meant to criticize curmudgeonly
with a refined mix of erudition and disdain. The word¹s etymology triggers
much argufaction. Some relate it to nabob, a wealthy elitist. Others to
Nabokov, an obscure 20th-century writer and ice-hockey player ...
Stan Kelly-Bootle
> On 08/06/2010 12:38, "Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@HOTMAIL.COM> CITED:
> Geeky Professor to Sex Icon
>
> Nabokov¹s path to Playboy was a far cry from that of Hugh Hefner¹s bunnies.
> Nabokov was a Russian émigré, writer, scholar, chessproblem creator and
> butterfly collector. He came to the United States in 1940 to teach Russian
> literature. Having already established a name for himself with his Russian
> language books, he traveled around the country teaching at Stanford, Wellesley
> and Harvard. In 1948 Nabokov was lured from the banks of the Charles River to
> the hills of Ithaca to head the Russian Department at Cornell University,
> though the department never materialized during his tenure. The first course
> he taught was Russian Literature, which Nabocovered Tolstoy, Gogol, Turgenev
> and eventually Pushkin. Later on, he taught European Literature, in which he
> delivered his now-famous lectures on James Joyce¹s masterpiece, ³Ulysses.²
>
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