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Fw: Fw: Saul Bellow -- an earnest admirer of Pnin and
Lolita...:Martin Amis essay
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
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> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (53
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> I don't think it's "family friend" and it's not quite from CHILDHOOD-the
> idea of Kingsley Amis socializing with Saul Bellow is unlikely, albeit
> hilarious (the two did not constitute a mutal admiration society to say
the
> least).
>
> GK
>
> > ----------
> > From: D. Barton Johnson
> > Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:59 PM
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Fw: Fw: Saul Bellow -- an earnest admirer of Pnin and
> > Lolita...:Martin Amis essay
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charles Nicol" <ejnicol@isugw.indstate.edu>
> > >
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> > > I'm told that Bellow has been a family friend from Martin's childhood
> > > on. This might have something to do with this announcement in The
> > > Atlantic that Bellow is not just one step above VN, but also one step
> > > above Twain, Melville, and James (all four of whom are mentioned in
the
> > > article).
> > > Chaz
> > >
> > > ========
> > > >>> chtodel@cox.net 11/20/2003 9:27:15 PM >>>
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
> > > >
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> > > > "Still, I propose to make an educated guess about >literary futures,
> > > and I
> > > > hereby trumpet the prediction that Saul Bellow >will emerge as the
> > > supreme
> > > > American novelist."
> > > >
> > > > I can recall when Amis fils was predicting World War 3, and his own
> > > 'need'
> > > > during WW3, to shoot his wife and children to spare them the ravages
> > > of
> > > > radiation poisoning. I suspect his latest prediction has an equally
> > > good
> > > > chance of being realised.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (53
lines) ------------------
> I don't think it's "family friend" and it's not quite from CHILDHOOD-the
> idea of Kingsley Amis socializing with Saul Bellow is unlikely, albeit
> hilarious (the two did not constitute a mutal admiration society to say
the
> least).
>
> GK
>
> > ----------
> > From: D. Barton Johnson
> > Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:59 PM
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Fw: Fw: Saul Bellow -- an earnest admirer of Pnin and
> > Lolita...:Martin Amis essay
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charles Nicol" <ejnicol@isugw.indstate.edu>
> > >
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (30
> > lines) ------------------
> > > I'm told that Bellow has been a family friend from Martin's childhood
> > > on. This might have something to do with this announcement in The
> > > Atlantic that Bellow is not just one step above VN, but also one step
> > > above Twain, Melville, and James (all four of whom are mentioned in
the
> > > article).
> > > Chaz
> > >
> > > ========
> > > >>> chtodel@cox.net 11/20/2003 9:27:15 PM >>>
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
> > > >
> > > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (11
> > > lines) ------------------
> > > > "Still, I propose to make an educated guess about >literary futures,
> > > and I
> > > > hereby trumpet the prediction that Saul Bellow >will emerge as the
> > > supreme
> > > > American novelist."
> > > >
> > > > I can recall when Amis fils was predicting World War 3, and his own
> > > 'need'
> > > > during WW3, to shoot his wife and children to spare them the ravages
> > > of
> > > > radiation poisoning. I suspect his latest prediction has an equally
> > > good
> > > > chance of being realised.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >