SLSL: Herbert Gold/Nabokov

[jbor]

My understanding was that in his final year at Cornell Pynchon "audited"
(i.e. sat in on) some of Nabokov's lectures, which doesn't necessarily
contradict this reminiscence.

I also remember reading somewhere that Nabokov's wife recalled Pynchon's
handwriting.

best


on 19/11/02 5:22 AM, davemarc at davemarc at panix.com wrote:

> According to this webpage by Jack Sarfatti, Gold filled in for someone named
> "Valdimir Nabokov" when Thomas Pynchon was at Cornell with Kirkpatrick Sale,
> Richard Farina, Peter Yarrow, and others.
> 
> My apologies if this has been cited here before....
> 
> http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/pcr/goldrev.html
> "I first met Herb Gold when I was an 18 year old physics major at Cornell.
> Tom Pynchon was in some of my classes. Gold was filling in for Valdimir
> Nabokov who was off writing the screenplay for Lolita. Herb introduced me to
> European literature (Dostoyevski, Goethe's Faust, Tolstoy, Proust). I would
> see him outside of class either in Willard Straight Hall or in Noyes Lodge
> where Kirk Sale, Richard Farina, Peter Yarrow, Tom Pynchon and other
> emerging literati and people of talent would gather."
> 
> d.
>