Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011939, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:25:55 -0700

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From: Dmitri Nabokov
To: D. Barton Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 6:58 AM
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Dear Don (please post in toto),

My father, whom I knew well, had not the least intention of changing laws by his writing. Nor would he have wanted to eradicate the "Viennese quack's" comic complexes, because they were an unending source of amusement. [ Inter nos, Don -- is this Morgan woman real?]

DN
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EDNOTE. Oh, yes. very real and very earnest. And "yes," humor would doubtless be impoverished had Freud not provided such rich material. I suppose that buried in all that tripe there might a nugget or two.