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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana L. Dragunoiu" <ddraguno@Princeton.EDU>
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> Dear List Members:
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> I recall reading a passage in which Nabokov describes
> a conversation with his father during which they
> express their inability to understand homosexuality
> (in tacit reference to Sergei's). I also recall
> a trouser press, a curtain between their adjoining
> beds, but I don't remember the source of this
> conversation. Can anyone help?
>
> With thanks in advance,
> Dana (Dragunoiu)
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EDNOTE: Dear Dana,
You are thinking of the entry in VN's diary for March 28, 1922. In it
reproduced in Boyd I, pp. 191-193. (Chapter 6, section 13).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana L. Dragunoiu" <ddraguno@Princeton.EDU>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (13
lines) ------------------
> Dear List Members:
>
> I recall reading a passage in which Nabokov describes
> a conversation with his father during which they
> express their inability to understand homosexuality
> (in tacit reference to Sergei's). I also recall
> a trouser press, a curtain between their adjoining
> beds, but I don't remember the source of this
> conversation. Can anyone help?
>
> With thanks in advance,
> Dana (Dragunoiu)
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EDNOTE: Dear Dana,
You are thinking of the entry in VN's diary for March 28, 1922. In it
reproduced in Boyd I, pp. 191-193. (Chapter 6, section 13).