NPPF Preliminary: The Epigraph

[Malignd]

<<... don't you think you ought to get your facts
straight?>>

Sorry, folks, but I am being called a liar. 
Nevertheless, last time.

Millison:

<<By the way, didn't Nabokov, or his wife, say that
they had no recollection of Pynchon as Nabokov's
student?>>

Me:

<<Since you ask:   VN said he did not; Vera said she
remembered his distinct handwriting, partly script,
partly block letters. 

And you learned it here at the Pale Fire reading on
the P-list.>>

You:

<<Not exactly. That's what I recall being posted to
Pynchon-L some time ago, in the context of a
discussion about Pynchon.>>

and then:

<<So, a rumor that was disavowed by Nabokov himself
...>>

And I responded:

<<Well, you recalled *it* wrong, dumb-dumb.>>

"It"; i.e., the content, not whether or not it had
appeared before on the board.  Of course it had; I had
posted it myself in June, as you know.  

"It"; i.e., VN didn't recall him, but Vera did; and VN
never disavowed any rumor.  He simply didn't recollect
TP.

You got it wrong.



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