ATDTDA (21): Nights out here on the masegni, 580-582

Monte Davis monte.davis at verizon.net
Wed Nov 14 15:03:22 CST 2007


I wrote:

> Pynchon's teacher Nabokov is eloquent in _Speak, Memory_ 
> about the power of these "random," usually unrecognized 
> sensory echoes...

I know better and yet keep saying this. While I'm confident P. has read his
Nabokov, he was *not* enrolled in any of N's courses at Cornell and there's
no evidence they were acquainted at all.  




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