Vladimir Nabokov Talks Synesthesia

[malignd at aol.com]

Johnny Marr and VN across from each other at a dinner party thinking:


VN:  This fellow is an exceedingly bright and witty fellow!


JM:  What a self-important bore ...



-----Original Message-----
From: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
To: Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 3:02 am
Subject: Re: Vladimir Nabokov Talks Synesthesia


Okay, give me a boring sentence in Lolita.

If someone who wrote such a book seems self-important you call it
self-assured, I believe.

2013/3/20 Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com>:
> He covers it during Speak, Memory in his usually self-important fashion.
> Great stylist, crashing bore.
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> http://mentalfloss.com/article/49442/vladimir-nabokov-talks-synesthesia
>
>

 
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