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

[Monte Davis]

Mark sez:
 
> In an interview with Nabokov that I read long ago, ... 
 
The information is in the same Hollander essay, among other places
 
http://www.vheissu.info/art/art_eng_SL_hollander.htm#chap_3
 
plus its footnote:
 
"For dispelling the notion that Pynchon studied with Nabokov, I am indebted
to Steve Tomaske, literary sleuth, who first called the nearly complete lack
of hard evidence to my attention. Pynchon's apprenticeship seems to have
been "established" by an offhand comment in a 1966 interview. Did Nabokov
remember Pynchon from among his hundreds of students? No. But Madame
Nabokov, who graded the Professor's papers, remembered someone, perhaps
Pynchon who had unusual handwriting. (Pynchon is said to blockletter
personal notes, as do legions of the cohort who were taught handwriting in
that period.) This unverified "perhaps" became the axiom on which the legend
has flourished..."
 
 
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