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From: "Jim Morrison" <jhmmorrison1685@yahoo.com>
To: <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: nabokov epigraph
> Hello,
>
> Even though I'm not a member of the Nabokov list, I'm
> a fan and thought I'd pass on some trivia. ;-)
>
> Along with John Donne and F.S. Fitzgerald, a quote
> from Nabokov is used in the new novel The
> Calligrapher, by Edward Docx.
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618343970
>
>
> The quote is: I am thinking of aurochs and angels,
> the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the
> refuge of art.
>
> Care to guess where it's from?
>
> If you could, you're a better man than me. I found a
> reference to it on the nabokov-l archive! Lolita,Part
> II, Ch 36 (AnL, pg 309)
>
> I just started the novel and it looks pretty good, but
> I've only read the first few chapters. Maybe something
> to pass on to the list?
>
> Jim
>
>
From: "Jim Morrison" <jhmmorrison1685@yahoo.com>
To: <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: nabokov epigraph
> Hello,
>
> Even though I'm not a member of the Nabokov list, I'm
> a fan and thought I'd pass on some trivia. ;-)
>
> Along with John Donne and F.S. Fitzgerald, a quote
> from Nabokov is used in the new novel The
> Calligrapher, by Edward Docx.
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618343970
>
>
> The quote is: I am thinking of aurochs and angels,
> the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the
> refuge of art.
>
> Care to guess where it's from?
>
> If you could, you're a better man than me. I found a
> reference to it on the nabokov-l archive! Lolita,Part
> II, Ch 36 (AnL, pg 309)
>
> I just started the novel and it looks pretty good, but
> I've only read the first few chapters. Maybe something
> to pass on to the list?
>
> Jim
>
>