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> an interview that VN gave to a NY television station in
> 1965.
>
> http://www.lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter05.txt
>
> Responding to a question about the pronunciation of his
> name, VN says the following: "Every author whose name is
> fairly often mentioned in periodicals develops a bird-watcher's
> or caterpillar-picker's knack when scanning an article.
> But in my case I always get caught by the word 'nobody'
> when capitalized at the beginning of a sentence."
>
> So VN often mistook "Nobody" for "Nabokov."
>
> Matt Roth
>
Matt: Humphrey Lyttleton relates that when a radio interviewr asked him
if
he had any hobbies, he stammered "Yes, orthinology." An hour later he
realized his missed Spooneristic opportunity: WORD BOTCHER!
A few months ago I was browsing YouTube.com. Searching for 'Vladimir
Nabokov' (as is my steady wont) I found two long French TV 'literary'
interviews -- possibly the ones I recall being mentioned on our list.
Alas,
they now seem to have been removed from the site -- maybe because of
copyright problems following the Google takeover of YouTube. I would
LOVE to
have links to all of VN's extant radio and TV shows.
skb
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Dear Matt Roth,
I am reasonably sure I drew attention to that interview, which is to be
found on page 51 of STRONG OPINIONS (McGraw-Hill, 1st ed.), early this
year,
but I believe it was not posted on this list for whatever reason, and as
so
often I did not bother to resend it.
That knack is easily developed as anyone who has riffled through
hundreds of
unindexed books looking for VN citations can testify.
A. Bouazza.
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> 1965.
>
> http://www.lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter05.txt
>
> Responding to a question about the pronunciation of his
> name, VN says the following: "Every author whose name is
> fairly often mentioned in periodicals develops a bird-watcher's
> or caterpillar-picker's knack when scanning an article.
> But in my case I always get caught by the word 'nobody'
> when capitalized at the beginning of a sentence."
>
> So VN often mistook "Nobody" for "Nabokov."
>
> Matt Roth
>
Matt: Humphrey Lyttleton relates that when a radio interviewr asked him
if
he had any hobbies, he stammered "Yes, orthinology." An hour later he
realized his missed Spooneristic opportunity: WORD BOTCHER!
A few months ago I was browsing YouTube.com. Searching for 'Vladimir
Nabokov' (as is my steady wont) I found two long French TV 'literary'
interviews -- possibly the ones I recall being mentioned on our list.
Alas,
they now seem to have been removed from the site -- maybe because of
copyright problems following the Google takeover of YouTube. I would
LOVE to
have links to all of VN's extant radio and TV shows.
skb
------------------
Dear Matt Roth,
I am reasonably sure I drew attention to that interview, which is to be
found on page 51 of STRONG OPINIONS (McGraw-Hill, 1st ed.), early this
year,
but I believe it was not posted on this list for whatever reason, and as
so
often I did not bother to resend it.
That knack is easily developed as anyone who has riffled through
hundreds of
unindexed books looking for VN citations can testify.
A. Bouazza.
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