Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0013756, Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:06:01 -0400

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Dear Charles (that should be safe),

I apologize for getting your name wrong. I don't know how I
did that.

My real first name is Gerald, incidentally. And that's as
far as I go in resemblances to Kinbote's Gerald.

I can't agree with you that proceeding along the lines of
scholarly inquiry is doomed. The novel was not written the
way Frost says poets pick up knowledge like burs--it was
certainly carefully planned.

(I also think that some of the poem is good poetry, though
none of it is as good as Frost's best.)

Jerry Friedman

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