Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0012850, Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:06:34 +0100

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On 20/6/06 13:03, "Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
Quoting a Boston newspaper:

The soccer fan's bible is Nick Hornby's ``Fever Pitch."

How does one SCREAM politely? Hornby is a Gooner with no talent for writing
‹ nuff said! say no more! -- he follows a London-based club called Arsenal
[sic] also known as the Gunners, deliberately mispronounced Gooners. To have
his name bandied within a megaparsec of Vladimir Nabokov is a literary
travesty beyond pardon.

My strong opinions have nothing to do with the fact than Hornby is still
gloating over the jammy Arsenal victory against my team (Liverpool) on 26
May 1989 that forms the anticlimax to his drab ³Fever Pitch.²

Stan Kelly-Bootle


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