liguistic [sic] showoff

[David Morris]

--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Somewhat ridiculously, David Morris suggests that his assessment of VN's work
shouldn't incur the sort of reaction it does from N-listers, and likewise
suggests that N-listers, whom he deems "worshippers" of Nabokov, are somehow
insecure by "bristling" at the mention of anything less than laudatory toward
their author.

Certain N-Listers have expressed this very "ridiculous" (and patently obvious)
idea in their own forum:  Dimitri is a petulant defender of his father's
reputation to the detriment of the "forum" of the N-List.
 
> Similarly, I don't find the oft-repeated "liguistic [sic]" the "childish"
item Mr. Morris would like us to believe.  In his post, Dmitri is making
obvious reference to the paradox of assessing VN's linguistic skills without
attention to one's own, a turn of irony that seems to perhaps escape some
folks. 

A typo is a typo (and a boob (like you) is a boob), and it is again a patently
obvious cheap and childish shot aimed to denigrate my expressed opinion.  BTW,
I'm not an author (nor a professor), just a reader with an opinion.
 
> While many of us on the P-list may not adore everything P's written, it's
pretty safe to assume that if someone came into this forum and expressed "pale
admiration" for, say, GR, [yada, yada, yada]

Which is why I didn't express it on the N-List.  The N-List voluntarily signed
on to the P-List.

David Morris

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