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Re: Morris articlein NYBR Bookend, Aug 23, 98 (fwd)
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From: Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: NYBR Bookend, Aug 23, 98 (fwd)
>From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
What in the world is 'lepidopteral prodigality'?
>Morris also praises herein "Appel's fascinatingly detailed annotated
edition,"
>and says, that on his eighth reading he "was, as usual, in a state of deep
>despair over the impossibility of ever writing a sentence that could compare
>with any of the flashing, floating lines that Nabokov released with such
>lepidopteral prodigality: at the bottom of the hill, in the summer dusk, a
>furry warmth, golden midges." Actually, not bad. And "Notwithstanding my love
>for Dolores Haze, I had to agree, as 'Ulysses' began to rise like a great
>whale [!] to the top of our subsequent polls, that no other novel of the
>century bulks as large, or gives off such wild underwater music."
>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: NYBR Bookend, Aug 23, 98 (fwd)
>From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
What in the world is 'lepidopteral prodigality'?
>Morris also praises herein "Appel's fascinatingly detailed annotated
edition,"
>and says, that on his eighth reading he "was, as usual, in a state of deep
>despair over the impossibility of ever writing a sentence that could compare
>with any of the flashing, floating lines that Nabokov released with such
>lepidopteral prodigality: at the bottom of the hill, in the summer dusk, a
>furry warmth, golden midges." Actually, not bad. And "Notwithstanding my love
>for Dolores Haze, I had to agree, as 'Ulysses' began to rise like a great
>whale [!] to the top of our subsequent polls, that no other novel of the
>century bulks as large, or gives off such wild underwater music."
>