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Auberon Waugh: Book of the Century (fwd)
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I posted the note re. the Auberon Waugh article.
Stephen Schiff notes:
It's a little discomfiting to find so many good Nabokovians --schooled,
presumably, in sniffing out irony, double meaning, and subtext -- sternly
tut-tutting at Waugh as though his remarks were meant to be taken at face
value.
And Charles HW notes:
In selecting a few excerpts from his article I was not deliberately setting
out to provoke or mislead anyone, anticipating amusement rather than
high-horse indignation.
It appears to me that only one person was mislead - me.
This was a useful, but embarassing, lesson!
Brian Gross
bpg@sr.hp.com
Stephen Schiff notes:
It's a little discomfiting to find so many good Nabokovians --schooled,
presumably, in sniffing out irony, double meaning, and subtext -- sternly
tut-tutting at Waugh as though his remarks were meant to be taken at face
value.
And Charles HW notes:
In selecting a few excerpts from his article I was not deliberately setting
out to provoke or mislead anyone, anticipating amusement rather than
high-horse indignation.
It appears to me that only one person was mislead - me.
This was a useful, but embarassing, lesson!
Brian Gross
bpg@sr.hp.com