Nabokovia In reply to 0000300476D2

[Orlowsky at aol.com]

Duffy:

The story about Vera Nabokov remembering Pynchon is more than just an
apocryphal anecdote.  The "anecdote" appears in a 1967 interview with Nabokov
himself by Alfred Appel in 8 Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature.
 If you want corroboration, there's always Siegel's line in the Playboy
article that "Of Vladimir Nabokov, Pynchon told me only that his Russian
accent was so thick he could hardly understand what he was saying."  With
Siegel's reputation for creative writing, though, I can see how you'd like
more solid proof.  Of course, I also remember reading somewhere that copies
of Pynchon's Cornell transcripts were floating around out there in
Pynchon-list-land, so someone should be able to give you the definitive
answer.

Bob