List:
Pardon me for this non-sequitur question. As all of you know, or
should know, given some of my obtuse comments, I am not a VN scholar.
So I take this opportunity to ask what you may be consider less than
worthy of this page, but would any of you venture to suggest what VN's
opinions would be in the Russo/Georgian incursion. I know from reading
(not always un-riddling) his books and autobiography, he had disdain
for the "Bolsheviks" Anyhow, thanks for given me a read. JS
[EDNote: While I'm not eager to encourage queries of the type "what
would VN think about X current event", James Studdard's question seems
to offer a chance to reflect on Nabokov's attitudes toward nationalism,
power, and different forms of aggression in various contexts. These
are not simple questions, and today of course Bolsheviks are not
involved at all. I will collect thoughtful replies to this theme in a
single post, which I will send out sometime tomorrow. Please,
no-off
the-(ahem)-cuff responses. Examples from N's fiction and non-fiction
encouraged. ~SB]