NP but Nabokov

[David Morris]

"Ripe" or "Rife?"

I think both work.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:07 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>