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> From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
> To: <chtodel@cox.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: azar nafisi
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As you will see at the bottom, I'm referring to DN's comment.
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> This is a story of great courage in a country where terror
> reigns in the name of religion, and which should be high on
> the list for revamping when we are done with Iraq.
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> EDNOTE. Suellen Stringer-Hye, compiler of the long-time NABOKV-L and
ZEMBLA
> feature on "VN in the Media" comments on DN's note of thanks to Azar
Nafisi
> re her book "Reading Lolita in Teheran." Dmitri Nabokov's posting follows.
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> --On Friday, April 18, 2003 4:37 PM -0500 "Stringer-Hye, Suellen"
> <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu wrote:
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> I hope in the revamping, another National Library is not
> destroyed. At the risk of self-promotion, here is the final
> paragraph of an article I recently wrote on "Nabokov, Libraries
> and the Art of Inquiry". A great tragedy has befallen a great
> civilization.
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> "The difference between an ape's memory and human memory is the
> difference between an ampersand and the British Museum library,"
> Nabokov said in a 1969 interview with the BBC. Inquiry approaches
> learning through exploration leading to discovery. Discovery
> unfolds new understanding, which in turn reveals new meaning. The
> process of inquiry is driven by innate curiosity, wonder,
> interest and the passion to know, initiated when the learner
> notices something that intrigues, surprises, or stimulates a
> question. As Daniel J. Boorstin, former Librarian of Congress
> writes, "We are all Seekers. We all want to know why." Nabokov
> as a lepidopterist, scholar and writer was a seeker and he wrote
> novels for people like himself. Chock-full of queries,
> references, resemblances, false hints and amazing finds they pull
> the reader into a text planted with jack-in-the box surprises
> that send the reader back out to the dictionary, the
> encyclopedia, the reference source, the library. And once a
> source is uncovered, an allusion understood, the reader realizes
> that in Nabokov's generous embrace the precious universal shared
> record of humanity has now become a part of Nabokov's grandly
> envisioned, richly patterned, universe. Life, love and libraries
> have no future; in Nabokov, they are forever.
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> --On Thursday, April 17, 2003 7:01 PM -0700 "D. Barton Johnson"
> <chtodel@cox.net wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dmitri Nabokov
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:40 PM
> Subject: azar nafisi
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> Dear Don,
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> I would like to reiterate publicly my thanks to Azar Nafisi, who
> was kind enough to send me her book Reading Lolita in Tehran.
> This is a story of great courage in a country where terror
> reigns in the name of religion, and which should be high on
> the list for revamping when we are done with Iraq.
> DN
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> Dear Don,
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> I would like to reiterate publically my thanks to Azar Nafisi,
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> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
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> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
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> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
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> From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
> To: <chtodel@cox.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: azar nafisi
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As you will see at the bottom, I'm referring to DN's comment.
>
> This is a story of great courage in a country where terror
> reigns in the name of religion, and which should be high on
> the list for revamping when we are done with Iraq.
>
> EDNOTE. Suellen Stringer-Hye, compiler of the long-time NABOKV-L and
ZEMBLA
> feature on "VN in the Media" comments on DN's note of thanks to Azar
Nafisi
> re her book "Reading Lolita in Teheran." Dmitri Nabokov's posting follows.
> -----------------------------------------
> --On Friday, April 18, 2003 4:37 PM -0500 "Stringer-Hye, Suellen"
> <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu wrote:
>
> I hope in the revamping, another National Library is not
> destroyed. At the risk of self-promotion, here is the final
> paragraph of an article I recently wrote on "Nabokov, Libraries
> and the Art of Inquiry". A great tragedy has befallen a great
> civilization.
>
> "The difference between an ape's memory and human memory is the
> difference between an ampersand and the British Museum library,"
> Nabokov said in a 1969 interview with the BBC. Inquiry approaches
> learning through exploration leading to discovery. Discovery
> unfolds new understanding, which in turn reveals new meaning. The
> process of inquiry is driven by innate curiosity, wonder,
> interest and the passion to know, initiated when the learner
> notices something that intrigues, surprises, or stimulates a
> question. As Daniel J. Boorstin, former Librarian of Congress
> writes, "We are all Seekers. We all want to know why." Nabokov
> as a lepidopterist, scholar and writer was a seeker and he wrote
> novels for people like himself. Chock-full of queries,
> references, resemblances, false hints and amazing finds they pull
> the reader into a text planted with jack-in-the box surprises
> that send the reader back out to the dictionary, the
> encyclopedia, the reference source, the library. And once a
> source is uncovered, an allusion understood, the reader realizes
> that in Nabokov's generous embrace the precious universal shared
> record of humanity has now become a part of Nabokov's grandly
> envisioned, richly patterned, universe. Life, love and libraries
> have no future; in Nabokov, they are forever.
>
>
>
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> --On Thursday, April 17, 2003 7:01 PM -0700 "D. Barton Johnson"
> <chtodel@cox.net wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dmitri Nabokov
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:40 PM
> Subject: azar nafisi
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> Dear Don,
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> I would like to reiterate publicly my thanks to Azar Nafisi, who
> was kind enough to send me her book Reading Lolita in Tehran.
> This is a story of great courage in a country where terror
> reigns in the name of religion, and which should be high on
> the list for revamping when we are done with Iraq.
> DN
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> Dear Don,
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> Please post.
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> I would like to reiterate publically my thanks to Azar Nafisi,
> who was kind enough to send me a copy of Reading Lolita in
> Tehran.
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> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
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> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
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> Stringer-Hye, Suellen
> Vanderbilt University
> Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
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