Dear Nabokv-L Subscribers,

In an attempt to limit mailbox clutter, I will be collecting and collating non-duplicative items sent in regarding TOOL and Ron Rosenbaum's articles.  I think that for our list's purposes, the current debate has run its course, and I do not particularly encourage further submissions on this topic.~SB
[J.Rea pun follows the two Powell's blog items.]

Subject:
Nabokov Responds ...
From:
"Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
Date:
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:26:21 -0500
To:
Sandy Klein_Netscape <spklein52@netscape.net>


http://www.powells.com/blog/


Authors, readers, critics, media — and booksellers.


Book News for Leap Day, February 29, 2008
February 29th, 2008: Posted by Brockman


Nabokov Responds: In the wake of yesterday's item about Ron Rosenbaum's ongoing investigation into the fate of Vladimir Nabokov's final manuscript in Slate, Yours Truly received the following message via email:

Mr. Brockman, whoever you are,
Please be informed that Rosenbaum has turned out to be a crackpot, whose obsession obscures his views of the issue. What he writes is total nonsense.
Yours,Dmitri Nabokov
This is new for me — usually I'm the one accused of writing nonsense.


Subject:
Hey Ron, is that your agent calling on line two..? ...
From:
"Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
Date:
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:33:51 -0500
To:
Sandy Klein--hotmail <spklein52@hotmail.com>

 

 
  http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=2978  
 
Authors, readers, critics, media — and booksellers.
Book News for Thursday, February 28, 2007
no Responses February 28th, 2008: Posted by Brockman
  •  A Very Pale Fire: Slate's Ron Rosenbaum updates the interminable saga of Vladimir Nabokov's last novel, The Original of Laura, for which he left instructions to have the manuscript burned after his death.
    [The latest chapter] involves what might be called the spectral appearance of Nabokov himself to his son, Dmitri, the 73-year-old sole heir who holds Laura's fate in his hands. This otherworldly manifestation came on the heels of an intense period of worldwide debate among readers and literary figures—debate stirred up by my disclosure that Dmitri was once again inclined to follow his father's deathbed wish and burn the manuscript, now awaiting its fate in a Swiss bank vault.
    There's a LOT more, almost enough to fill an entire book of its own. Hey Ron, is that your agent calling on line two..?
 
Subject:
Re: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS: DN re CONJUROR
From:
John A Rea <j.rea2@insightbb.com>
Date:
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:34:54 -0500
To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>

jansymello wrote:
 
I can only deduce that Nabokov's "shade" and "conjurors" are among us, together with "devices, like elves or gnomes"...
After debating with myself if I should silently and prudently just sit and watch the unfolding spectacle, I concluded that I might as well venture into what John Rea described as "sheer speckulations"
Or, as the French might put it, "L'ard pour l'ard" (From John Rea)

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