Grasping for V. Group Read

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 21:09:52 CDT 2010


Mark Kohut wrote:
> As is 'the mine sweeper Impulsive"......hilarious
>
> As is Dewey Gland, which name, when he was told it, made V. Nabokov laugh and laugh.....almost to deweyness
>
> Too-earnest a belated thought after the above: why did P use the jump threw a window trope
> again in Vineland?.....I might say in my lit crit mode: what was the talk of drunken sailors in
> America in 1955 became real in 70s America......
>


ooh, good one....
also, hmm, the difference between the outside and the inside,
shattering the boundary...



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