SLSL: Herbert Gold/Nabokov

[David Morris]

All of the web site text below is unsourced and is thus unreliable, no matter
how often it is repeated in various forms.  The internet is rife with cutting
and pasting from one source to another, and sometimes "facts" have a way of
growing roots from thin air.

Cornell is my alma mater, and I'm sure my but has sat in some chair or on some
wall where Pynchon's did.  I never knew until this list that Nabakov taught
there, which also makes me happy.  But the facts re. Pynchon's residence there
and Nabakov's too, not to mention Pynchon's course record, should be possible,
by hook or crook, to acquire.  Until something resembling that is sourced in
these reports I remain an agnostic.

David Morris

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <MalignD at aol.com>
> > <<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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