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

[Mark Kohut]

Monte,

 is right on, as usual, as ever and it is good to be reminded.

In an interview with Nabokov that I read long ago, I believe it
was one of the fine Paris Review interviews, he was asked whether
he had read or knew/remembered Thomas Pynchon at Cornell.
He had not and did not.

This interview was a Vladimir/Vera (his wife) joint one and in 
a footnote she answered that she remembered Pynchon's papers in one
class because he had a unique handprinting or half writing, half printing,
if I remember correctly. She remembers nothing else about him. 

She corrected all the papers in Vladimir's classes. 

This interview is surely in one of the books of published Paris
Review interviews. I will check my memory against it.

Somewhere else---Nabokov bio? Pynchon speculations?---
I think I remember someone believing that TRP audited a Nabokov class,
which might explain Vera's memory if TRP was never officially enrolled in 
a Nabokov class.


----- Original Message ----
From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:03:22 PM
Subject: RE: ATDTDA (21): Nights out here on the masegni, 580-582

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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