On Nabokov's Talking

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Barry Westburg wrote:
> But I did come to know several of 
> Nabokov's academic friends, including Prof Robbie McCloud,who rented
> his house to 
> VN, a place where I happened to live for a short time as well, and where VN 
> composed much of Lolita.)

One of my fellow countrywomen, a friend of mine and a wizard on continental
philosophy, wrote her Ph.D. for SUNY-Binghamton. (Her tutor was this
Pynchomane, William Spanos.) She lived for a while in Ithaca, too. In a
house where Farina lived during his Cornell years. However, at that time
she did not know Pynchon yet. That's why she remained totally indifferent
to the things in the attic -- according to her there were still a lot of
Farina's belongings up there at the turn of the 80s. Needless to say, I
have, frequently and mercilessly, scolded her for her negligence. These
philosophers... 


Heikki