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EDITOR'S NOTE. Charlie Largent, editor of the Web page "Graystar: A Net
Companion to Lolita, comments on Suellen String-Hye's recent "Cybernab"
column.
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From: Charlie Largent <humquilt@inetdirect.net>
Hello Nabokov Forum
I thought the Lane review in the New Yorker was wonderful... he expressed
so much of how I felt about Nabokov in his review that I suffered those
cliched thoughts, "gee if I could write, this is what I'd say". Lane
suffered himself slightly from the ever-tempting desire to emulate Nabokov
in his own syntax but overall I thought it was a superb piece of work.
Another listing struck me as kind of brilliant. The person who cited
America's Home Video as a Nabokov connection struck a deep literary nerve.
I have rarely seen this show but when surfing and come upon it I usually
linger for a few minutes and end up laughing more than I feel I should,
given the circumstances. This person's description of the details within
the video event really do summarize the coupling of mundane Americana and
raptourous Nabokov prose. Those videos are truly "found" art objects. This
only underlines the sense of loss I feel about not having a comparable
literary mind to examine (and play with) this kind of current event. I
think Nabokov would have loved the notion of Americans videotaping
themselves engaged in pre-programmed, choreographed pratfalls.
Companion to Lolita, comments on Suellen String-Hye's recent "Cybernab"
column.
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Forwarded message ----------
From: Charlie Largent <humquilt@inetdirect.net>
Hello Nabokov Forum
I thought the Lane review in the New Yorker was wonderful... he expressed
so much of how I felt about Nabokov in his review that I suffered those
cliched thoughts, "gee if I could write, this is what I'd say". Lane
suffered himself slightly from the ever-tempting desire to emulate Nabokov
in his own syntax but overall I thought it was a superb piece of work.
Another listing struck me as kind of brilliant. The person who cited
America's Home Video as a Nabokov connection struck a deep literary nerve.
I have rarely seen this show but when surfing and come upon it I usually
linger for a few minutes and end up laughing more than I feel I should,
given the circumstances. This person's description of the details within
the video event really do summarize the coupling of mundane Americana and
raptourous Nabokov prose. Those videos are truly "found" art objects. This
only underlines the sense of loss I feel about not having a comparable
literary mind to examine (and play with) this kind of current event. I
think Nabokov would have loved the notion of Americans videotaping
themselves engaged in pre-programmed, choreographed pratfalls.