NPPF From the Nabokov-List

[The Great Quail]

This is either:

1. Evidence why the presence of the author's son on a moderated mailing list
probably doesn't make for a very freewheeling forum; or:

2. Proof that Dmitri Nabokov is actually Slothenvypride.

--Quail


>> 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