Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001249, Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:57:12 -0700

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Query: "For God's sake, take notes!" (fwd)
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From: Ian & Laurie Stoba <stoba@earthlink.net>
To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU

Hello,

I joined this list today after spending most of the afternoon trying to
hunt down the source of a VN quote that I dimly remember reading some years
ago. As I remember, the line is from his advice to students in the Cornell
European Literature course and ends "....and for God's sake, take notes!".

I was hoping to use this same advice for my own students in a mathematics
course I will be teaching this semester. If anyone could help me with the
text and/or attribution of this quote I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance,

Ian Stoba
stoba@earthlink.net