NP but Nabokov

[Mark Kohut]

I, personally, love this penetrating gloss especially, LOL, as he did not
believe in Freud's
or Jung's shadow or anything like it.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:32 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Nabokov's aristocratic yearnings are on full display in Ada.  It
> is a world he wished was his, him as Van.
>
> But isn't hairy rubbing against slippery a porn standard, both gay and
> straight?  His brother was murdered in the camps by the Nazis for being
> gay.  I find this quote ripe with Nabokov's unresolved personal shadow.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:40 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> sven birkerts
>> ⁦‪@svenbirkerts‬⁩
>>
>>
>> "There is nothing in the world that I loathe more
>> than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix
>> in a multiplication of mediocrity."
>>
>> Vladimir Nabokov b. 4,22,1899
>>
>