<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>And, of course, there was a different relation to language then. Another theme, of course. <br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Dec 15, 2014, at 4:41 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <<a href="mailto:eromberg@mac.com">eromberg@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8">Haha yeah! I know! But by the end of the book you’re like, how do we get by not using caps more? M&D certainly made me aware of them.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(sorry, forgot to link)<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">15. des. 2014 kl. 11.30 skrev Mark Kohut <<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com" class="">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">M & D may have been the hardest Pynchon for me to read----THOSE CAPS! --and English is my first language. AND, there are 3 films of Lolita! All worthy of being seen, IMHO, even though Kubrick's is the most famous. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">Sent from my iPad</div><div class=""><br class="">On Dec 15, 2014, at 4:09 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <<a href="mailto:eromberg@mac.com" class="">eromberg@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class="">Alright then.. I’ve just gone and bought Lolita, Pale Fire and Ada! I’ve only seen the film once (Lolita), didn’t sort of know how big Nabokov was until I joined this list. Thanks Doc. (I’m reading House of Leaves now, also on the recommendation of P-list).<div class=""><div class="">M&D is lovely. Really really lovely. In the beginning I didn’t know what was going on (it was my first TRP-book) and had to start it 7 times:) English is not my first language, but I got the hang of it as soon as I figured Dixon is a Northerner (Yorkshire-lad), which is where I learned my english a long time ago. It might be my favorite book ever. Definitely top 5.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Elisabeth</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">14. des. 2014 kl. 20.25 skrev Perry Noid <<a href="mailto:coolwithdoc@gmail.com" class="">coolwithdoc@gmail.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">This topic is getting me excited about Nab all over again. Can't wait to finish The Peripheral so I can start on Ada. Super excited! And I still haven't completed the Pynchon oeuvre either; missing V, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon but I will get to them in time, hopefully. Most interested in M&D since it seems to be the least talked about here or anywhere for some reason. It makes me curious. Goldarn holiday is forcing me to put reading on the back burner though unfortunately.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Simon Bryquer <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:sbryquer@nyc.rr.com" target="_blank" class="">sbryquer@nyc.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">CORRECTION - Sebastian Knight was 1st published in 1941<br class="">
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight was written in 1939 and published in 1949 -- are you saying V (published in 1963)influenced The Real Life of Sebastian Knight ?<br class="">
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I might second but I believe in some bit of time passing (usually)<br class="">
between reads...so I say listen to JEREMY IRONS read Lolita to<br class="">
ya....PNIN is fun and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight had V.<br class="">
influence....(you'll see)......Despair, the chess one is good on the<br class="">
paranoia of over patterning....and a consequence....then reread PALE<br class="">
FIRE which you would have read and Speak, Memory is another<br class="">
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Perry Noid <<a href="mailto:coolwithdoc@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">coolwithdoc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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Ooh! Well if I can make a suggestion; read Lolita again, then read pale fire<br class="">
twice in a row. In my very green and humble opinion, Nabokov begs to be<br class="">
double-dipped. Last one I read was Speak, Memory but Ada, or Ardour is<br class="">
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Just finished reading "Lolita" for the first time. What a great read!<br class="">
Don't know why it took so long to get to it, other than to look around at<br class="">
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