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NABOKOV, Zadie Smith & Quilty
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EDNOTE. At the same site I noticed:
Face to Face wi
Zadie talks about ... Books
What's your all-time classic novel, and why?
Ug Ug. Just one? It's a dumb question so here's a scattershot
answer
Novel - Pnin, Nabokov
Story - The Death of Ivan Ilyvich, Tolstoy
Poem - To His Coy Mistress, Marvell
Play - Henry V
The letters - Groucho Marx collected
The one I say to impress people but haven't actually read - The
Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
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From: "Basil Lawrence" <hhumbert@HOTMAIL.COM>
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> not sure if this has been posted to N-L yet, but here goes:
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> http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/packages/uk/articles/smith/smith2.html
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> An A-Z by Zadie Smith on the penguin books website.
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> Q:
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> "QUILTY, Dr CLARE
> The very greatest of the literary bad guys. He has feminine handwriting.
> He has peculiar t's, w's and l's. He goes by pseudonyms:
>
> Dr Gratiano Forbeson of Mirandola NY
>
> A.Person, of Porlock, England.
>
> Arthur Rainbow
>
> Morris Schmetterling
>
> And many more. His is an evil that runs through all the best books, never
> quite revealing itself, loping in the shadows, just behind our hero.
> Quelque-part Island is one of his favourite residences. Humbert suspects
> him of being a repressed undinist (a man who is aroused by water, esp.
> urine)."
Face to Face wi
Zadie talks about ... Books
What's your all-time classic novel, and why?
Ug Ug. Just one? It's a dumb question so here's a scattershot
answer
Novel - Pnin, Nabokov
Story - The Death of Ivan Ilyvich, Tolstoy
Poem - To His Coy Mistress, Marvell
Play - Henry V
The letters - Groucho Marx collected
The one I say to impress people but haven't actually read - The
Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Basil Lawrence" <hhumbert@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (25
lines) ------------------
> not sure if this has been posted to N-L yet, but here goes:
>
> http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/packages/uk/articles/smith/smith2.html
>
> An A-Z by Zadie Smith on the penguin books website.
>
> Q:
>
> "QUILTY, Dr CLARE
> The very greatest of the literary bad guys. He has feminine handwriting.
> He has peculiar t's, w's and l's. He goes by pseudonyms:
>
> Dr Gratiano Forbeson of Mirandola NY
>
> A.Person, of Porlock, England.
>
> Arthur Rainbow
>
> Morris Schmetterling
>
> And many more. His is an evil that runs through all the best books, never
> quite revealing itself, loping in the shadows, just behind our hero.
> Quelque-part Island is one of his favourite residences. Humbert suspects
> him of being a repressed undinist (a man who is aroused by water, esp.
> urine)."
