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Jansy: Eureka, or rather my-lum-reek-a. (My chimney smokes; see prev.
postings on Lallans)
³Words on Words, Quotations about Language and Languages,² David Crystal &
Hilary Crystal, Penguin, 2000 (found lurking on my own shelves after all.)
7 entries by Nabokov (4 from Strong Opinions.) 6 each from G Flaubert and J
Joyce. A Pope gets a mammoth 17. J UPDIKE? Just ONE. Nya nya!
Excellent Indexes: by author; by source; by theme. D Crystal, as I may have
mentioned, is my favourite linguist, since he cites fondly from my Scouse
translation of Omar Khayaam in his Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language.
He¹s not infallible, of course. I had to correct his spelling of Finnegans
Wake some years ago. And he (or his wife Hilary) has Homer- nodded again: in
Words on Words, VN¹s Harvard acquaintance, philosopher-logician WILLARD Van
Orman Quine appears in six places as WILLIAM! Quine wins 2 quotes worthy of
Nabokovians¹ attention:
³To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get
along without it. To define is to eliminate.²
³Pending a clarification of the notion of meaning, linguists ... are in the
situation of not knowing what they are talking about.²
(B Russell goes further: ³Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which
we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is
true.²)
I¹ll copy out VN¹s chosen 7 when time allows. Everything stops here while
Brasil play Italy (soccer)
Stan Kelly-Bootle
On 05/02/2009 22:44, "jansymello" <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:
> Stan Kelly -Bootle: [The two (Oxford) Anthologies of "Humour" and of "XXth
> Century Poets" I consulted carry no Nabokov [...] Where could I find out about
> which anthologies in English included VN among American, English-speaking,
> novelists or the Russian poets and authors?] "...I can report that he
> flourishes in most of the FAMOUS QUOTATIONS collections I've come across. One
> of the collections (Oxford Univ. Press, I think) was devoted specifically to
> Lit & Lang aphorisms (or "pithy sayings," he lisped!). Dozens of Nabokovian
> quips, which one has the feeling were deliberately polished with such
> collections in mind.
>
> JM: My access to specialized libraries is limited, as you know, so your
> ellucidation helped to balance my overall impression. For ex, The Oxford
> Dictionary of Quotations (1979), under V. Nabokov, quotes: "Lolita, light of
> my life, fire of my loins." Not very inspiring!
//snip
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postings on Lallans)
³Words on Words, Quotations about Language and Languages,² David Crystal &
Hilary Crystal, Penguin, 2000 (found lurking on my own shelves after all.)
7 entries by Nabokov (4 from Strong Opinions.) 6 each from G Flaubert and J
Joyce. A Pope gets a mammoth 17. J UPDIKE? Just ONE. Nya nya!
Excellent Indexes: by author; by source; by theme. D Crystal, as I may have
mentioned, is my favourite linguist, since he cites fondly from my Scouse
translation of Omar Khayaam in his Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language.
He¹s not infallible, of course. I had to correct his spelling of Finnegans
Wake some years ago. And he (or his wife Hilary) has Homer- nodded again: in
Words on Words, VN¹s Harvard acquaintance, philosopher-logician WILLARD Van
Orman Quine appears in six places as WILLIAM! Quine wins 2 quotes worthy of
Nabokovians¹ attention:
³To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get
along without it. To define is to eliminate.²
³Pending a clarification of the notion of meaning, linguists ... are in the
situation of not knowing what they are talking about.²
(B Russell goes further: ³Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which
we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is
true.²)
I¹ll copy out VN¹s chosen 7 when time allows. Everything stops here while
Brasil play Italy (soccer)
Stan Kelly-Bootle
On 05/02/2009 22:44, "jansymello" <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:
> Stan Kelly -Bootle: [The two (Oxford) Anthologies of "Humour" and of "XXth
> Century Poets" I consulted carry no Nabokov [...] Where could I find out about
> which anthologies in English included VN among American, English-speaking,
> novelists or the Russian poets and authors?] "...I can report that he
> flourishes in most of the FAMOUS QUOTATIONS collections I've come across. One
> of the collections (Oxford Univ. Press, I think) was devoted specifically to
> Lit & Lang aphorisms (or "pithy sayings," he lisped!). Dozens of Nabokovian
> quips, which one has the feeling were deliberately polished with such
> collections in mind.
>
> JM: My access to specialized libraries is limited, as you know, so your
> ellucidation helped to balance my overall impression. For ex, The Oxford
> Dictionary of Quotations (1979), under V. Nabokov, quotes: "Lolita, light of
> my life, fire of my loins." Not very inspiring!
//snip
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