more of the offlist story

[pynchonoid]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:37:47 -0400
Subject: Re: Offlist
From: The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com>
To: Doug Millison <dougmillison@>
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> Yes, twice.  Once a long time ago and once more
recently.  I've read some
> other Nabokov novels and have read Lolita twice,
too.

Have you ever read "Pnin?" I've been thinking about
reading it soon....

> I'll make you a deal.  Stop insulting me on the
P-list, and I'll do the same.
> Same deal goes for anybody else on the P-list.

I wish it were that easy! I'd rather you just relaxed
about the PF
discussion and its relevance to Pynchon. Then I'll
stop "insulting" you
whether or not you cook my goose.

And come on, baiting Morris? It's like shooting fish
in a barrel. He's
really not a bad guy... I suspect you just get a kick
out of winding him
up...!

Hey, how do you say "The Great Quail" in Chinese?
(Transliteration of
course.)

--Q

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At 4:37 PM -0400 7/10/03, The Great Quail wrote:
>> Yes, twice.  Once a long time ago and once more
recently.  I've read some
>> other Nabokov novels and have read Lolita twice,
too.
>
>Have you ever read "Pnin?" I've been thinking about
reading it soon....]

Yes, a long time ago.  I remember enjoying it.  Also,
Transparent Things, Ada, and N's memoirs.

>
>And come on, baiting Morris? It's like shooting fish
in a barrel. 

He is stupid, isn't he, so dense he doesn't have a
clue how dumb he is.  I'm still chuckling about his
comment that he had heard you don't really need to
read the poem in Pale Fire -- of course if he wants to
turn the book upside down and pretend he can read it
upside down (as my son used to do before he learned to
read books but wanted to do what I was doing anyway),
or wipe his butt with it, or work from the Cliff's
Notes, that's his privilege.

<He's
>really not a bad guy.

If you like the war-monger, foaming-at-the-mouth,
nitwit type, perhaps. 

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At 4:37 PM -0400 7/10/03, The Great Quail wrote:
>
>Hey, how do you say "The Great Quail" in Chinese?
(Transliteration of
>course.)

Happy to help.

in pinyin romanization:   da ben niao

pronounced:  DA  (as in "Ta da!") BUN (as in "cinnamon
bun") KNEE-OW (as in "My knee hurts").

That's in standard Chinese, aka putonghua, aka
Mandarin dialect,

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> Happy to help.

Thanks, it I much appreciated!

--Q

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At 9:15 AM -0400 7/11/03, The Great Quail wrote:
>> Happy to help.
>
>Thanks, it I much appreciated!


You're welcome.

Chinese retains the same subject-verb-object
grammatical structure as English.  Unless you're
training for the Charlie Chan remakes.





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