C. Kunin: Thinking of Pnin, does anyone recall the
word/expression Nabokov invented to indicate the precarious state of Pnin's
existence?
JM: One of the things that puzzles me is VN's emphasis
about the smallness of Pnin's feet.
CK Bailey is too intelligent to be swayed by that
toad [Sartre]. By the way, I once got very angry with VN for his dismissal of
such wonderful writers as Pasternak and Albert Schweitzer, the latter of whom
was related to Sartre.
JM: Do you think that VN's critical appraisals and
curt dismissals of writers would be another point to consider in
relation to Bailey's silence?