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From: "Johnson, Kurt" <JohnsoK@Coudert.com>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> I would be interested in this as well because I know a number of
> Nabophiles who are Stevensophiles as well (including Victoria
> Alexander). My long-term interest in Stevens also initiated a 30-year
> friendship (and now collaborative effort on some recent things) with Zen
> scholar/poet Lucien Stryk (who has written/lectured on Stevens and whose
> most recent book is "The Awakened Self: Encounters With Zen"). I'd been
> out of touch with LS for a few years until he happened to see "Nabokov's
> Blues" on the shelf. So I would not be surprised to hear of other
> Stevens/Nabokov mutual "reader/love-affairs"; however, in the work and
> chit-chat I've done on Nabokov so far I hadn't run across anything
> directly about Nabokov and Stevens. But your suggestion does not
> surprise me and I'd also be interested in any connections people may
> know of.
>
> Kurt Johnson
>
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From: "Johnson, Kurt" <JohnsoK@Coudert.com>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (16
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> I would be interested in this as well because I know a number of
> Nabophiles who are Stevensophiles as well (including Victoria
> Alexander). My long-term interest in Stevens also initiated a 30-year
> friendship (and now collaborative effort on some recent things) with Zen
> scholar/poet Lucien Stryk (who has written/lectured on Stevens and whose
> most recent book is "The Awakened Self: Encounters With Zen"). I'd been
> out of touch with LS for a few years until he happened to see "Nabokov's
> Blues" on the shelf. So I would not be surprised to hear of other
> Stevens/Nabokov mutual "reader/love-affairs"; however, in the work and
> chit-chat I've done on Nabokov so far I hadn't run across anything
> directly about Nabokov and Stevens. But your suggestion does not
> surprise me and I'd also be interested in any connections people may
> know of.
>
> Kurt Johnson
>
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