No comment except Cowart is good (in earlier book)

Max Nemtsov max.nemtsov at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 01:08:25 CDT 2012


what a sweet anecdote )) made my morning, thank you, Heikki
quite consistent with TRP's pranksterism in the vein of "however" 
acceptance speech
I liked rather his latest book, too
Mx

On 05.07.2012 21:55, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:
>
> I admired Cowart's allusion book back in the times when I was a
> Pynchon scholar. (I still do.) Got the chance to meet him in fall
> '92 when he was a Fulbright Professor at the Univ of Helsinki.
>
> He told me that to mark the beginning of his Fulbright commission,
> he was invited to give an inaugural lecture at the U.S. Embassy in
> Helsinki. The embassy was still under the Bush Sr administration.
>
> The lecture concerned the Domina Nocturna episode in GR. A Finnish
> professor (Nabokov scholar) who was present told me that it was a
> "memorable occasion".
>
>
> Heikki
>
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
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