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Fw: Nabokov's Whole Bunch of Terrible Novels
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From: "Redjames" <jwomack@yandex.ru>
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> Hello,
>
> Maybe slightly hubristic to ask people on a Nabokov mailing list
> to say which of his novels they dislike - the sample doesn't
> really admit that sort of survey. Equally, I thought we might be
> able to give ad hominem attacks a break for a week or so.
>
> Personally, I think it's perfectly OK to have discussion framed in
> these terms, as long as you give reasons for your choices. '-Glory-
> is boring and doesn't do anything for me' is not a reason, but an
> opinion, and other people's opinions are going to degenerate into
> 'did-didn't' arguments in two shakes of a Lolita's tail. Which,
> combined with the etiolated and mostly irrelevant glue discussion,
> is going to make NABOKV-L an even more rebarbative environment than
> normal.
>
> Best regards,
>
> James Womack.
>
> PS. I have never been able to read more than fifteen or twenty pages
> of KQK, which suggests that the ol' VN magic wore a bit thin for me
> with that one, but I can't tell you why, as I didn't read enough to
> form an opinion. JW.
> --
> ....soft as the earth is mankind and both
> Need to be altered...
From: "Redjames" <jwomack@yandex.ru>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (27
lines) ------------------
> Hello,
>
> Maybe slightly hubristic to ask people on a Nabokov mailing list
> to say which of his novels they dislike - the sample doesn't
> really admit that sort of survey. Equally, I thought we might be
> able to give ad hominem attacks a break for a week or so.
>
> Personally, I think it's perfectly OK to have discussion framed in
> these terms, as long as you give reasons for your choices. '-Glory-
> is boring and doesn't do anything for me' is not a reason, but an
> opinion, and other people's opinions are going to degenerate into
> 'did-didn't' arguments in two shakes of a Lolita's tail. Which,
> combined with the etiolated and mostly irrelevant glue discussion,
> is going to make NABOKV-L an even more rebarbative environment than
> normal.
>
> Best regards,
>
> James Womack.
>
> PS. I have never been able to read more than fifteen or twenty pages
> of KQK, which suggests that the ol' VN magic wore a bit thin for me
> with that one, but I can't tell you why, as I didn't read enough to
> form an opinion. JW.
> --
> ....soft as the earth is mankind and both
> Need to be altered...