SLSL: Herbert Gold/Nabokov

[Otto]

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> <<I also remember reading somewhere that Nabokov's wife recalled Pynchon's
> handwriting. >>
> 
> I've read this also (that he wrote half script/half block letters).  But I 
> also seem to recollect someone on this list, saying the story was false.  
> Don't recall who or what source was cited ...
>

"He was at college, his alma mater being Cornell, where he learned of Lolita and Pnin from that master of expatriated melancholy, Vladimir Nabokov. To his teacher, he was naught but a pale fire which did not burn brightly, remembered only by the professor's wife because of his "unusual handwriting: half printing, half script.""
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_biography.html

Literati Scatterati Diversa Influentia e Corrupta 
"The MLA Bibliography lists citations for studies addressing Pynchon and his sources in such authors, personalities, and genres as: Richard Farina, James Bond, William S. Burroughs, James Joyce, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Hobbes, Hogarth, science fiction, Vladimir Nabokov, Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland), classic spy novels, Ernest Hemingway, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Franz Kafka, Karl Baedeker's guidebooks, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Beat poets/novelists, and Samuel Beckett."
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html

"Returns to Cornell, enrolls on the College of Arts and Sciences, takes a course from Vladimir Nabokov. Pynchon recalls that Nabakov has such a heavy Russin accent that it was difficult to understand anything he said."
http://web.archive.org/web/20001025015134/http://www.fringeware.com/subcult/Thomas_Pynchon.html 
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