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>From Dmitri Nabokov
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:33 AM

I know we shall all be grateful to David Morris for finally unmasking VN as
a liguistic [sic] showoff. I, personally, would be grateful if he would
illustrate his vision with a few specific instances. That would help me read
my father with a new perspective, and finally give me insight into locutions
whose meaning, it seems, has escaped me ever since, when I was  fourteen, he
first gave me a novel of his to read. It was Bend Sinister and, naïvely, I
thought I understood most of it, partly because I was then studying
Shakespeare. When I was stumped, he was always ready to expain, but, since
Mr. Morris has at last established that Father was little more than a
nacissistic nobody, I see now why he never once owned up to having said
something for the sake of showing off.  Live and learn. While he's at it,
Mr. Morris might clarify his assessment of "so many quotes" from VN.

With utmost respect for such perspicacity,

Dmitri Nabokov