NABOKV-L post 0005416, Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:30:58 -0700

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From: "Galya Diment" <galya@u.washington.edu>
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> From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
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> "'Caress the details,' Nabokov would utter, rolling the r, his voice the
> rough caress of a cat's tongue, 'the divine details!'" It's from Ross
> Wetzsteon's "Nabokov as a Teacher" as found in The Tribute to Nabokov (On
> His Seventieth Birthday); originally in TriQuarterly, p. 245.
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> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
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> > From: "Bart Eeckhout" <bart.eeckhout@rug.ac.be>
> > > From: Bart Eeckhout Bart.Eeckhout@rug.ac.be
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> > > Wish we could all say 'speak, memory' and it did. For an essay on the
> > great
> > > modernist poet Toilets (in VN's anagram) I'm hopelessly looking for
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> > > source of VN's delightful advice to readers: "Caress the details, the
> > divine
> > > details!" Better memories than mine would be much appreciated.
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