NP but Cornell and VN.

[Erik T. Burns]

 “You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style”

(our man was at Cornell from 1953-60 (with time out for the Navy). Maybe
the notorious TRP was down with the notorious RBG)

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 1:37 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes true.....VN did it in the class commenting on the great writers' books,
> the writing, which he taught.
>
> She corrected all the papers. VN did not remember Thomas Pynchon at all in
> his class but Vera
> remembered his unique handwriting/printing both together penmanship.
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 8:28 AM Dottie Jeffries <dottiejeffries at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > So references the RBG exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum:
> > https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/exhibitions/special-exhibitions/
> >
> > I took a virtual tour of the exhibit in July.
> > RBG took VN's legendary European literature class.
> >
> >
> https://medium.com/@francesk/how-vladimir-nabokov-helped-ruth-bader-ginsburg-find-her-voice-at-cornell-e87e68f49f71
> >
> > Mark - when I mentioned such in a class earlier this summer, you pointed
> > out that it was probably Vera Nabokov who was reviewing and commenting on
> > the student class papers and probably Vera is owed some credit as well.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ra_Nabokov
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 6:32 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Somebody on Twitter. Hope this is true:
> >> "Today I found out that RBG credited her Cornell University lit prof
> with
> >> influencing her style of judicial opinion. You know who that prof was?
> >> Vladimir Nabokov."
> >>
> >
> >
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