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Dear Ed Note: your Yanqui imperative "Enjoy!" for once is literally
heard &
obeyed. Two brief spins on Jansy's mellow fruitfulness:
1. Some years ago the UK New Statesman ran a regular "parody contest"
with
the usual sequence of target authors, including Bernard Shaw. GBS
submitted
a pseudonymous Shavian self-parody -- but failed to win first prize.
Versions of the anecdote abound: some say GBS came second, others have
him
third -- yet others relate similar stories about Hemmingway...
2. This from the satirical Brit magazine Private Eye (No. 1156, 14-27
April
2006); an article "Cash versus Cachet" by Bookworm (identity withheld)
on
the problems facing wannabe-published novelists:
"Lurking beneath this retail paradise, in which works by Madame Osbourne
are
taken very seriously indeed, is a third difficulty, of particular
consequence for the thousands of bedsitter habitues struggling to write
the
novel that will knock Nabokov into a cocked hat. For more people, it
seems,
want to write books these days than to read them or buy them."
Stan Kelly-Bootle
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heard &
obeyed. Two brief spins on Jansy's mellow fruitfulness:
1. Some years ago the UK New Statesman ran a regular "parody contest"
with
the usual sequence of target authors, including Bernard Shaw. GBS
submitted
a pseudonymous Shavian self-parody -- but failed to win first prize.
Versions of the anecdote abound: some say GBS came second, others have
him
third -- yet others relate similar stories about Hemmingway...
2. This from the satirical Brit magazine Private Eye (No. 1156, 14-27
April
2006); an article "Cash versus Cachet" by Bookworm (identity withheld)
on
the problems facing wannabe-published novelists:
"Lurking beneath this retail paradise, in which works by Madame Osbourne
are
taken very seriously indeed, is a third difficulty, of particular
consequence for the thousands of bedsitter habitues struggling to write
the
novel that will knock Nabokov into a cocked hat. For more people, it
seems,
want to write books these days than to read them or buy them."
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm