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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
To: <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: azar nafisi
Don,
Here's the post again. As you will see at the bottom, I'm
referring to DN's comment
This is a story of great courage in a country where terror
reigns in the name of religion, and which should be high on
the list for revamping when we are done with Iraq.
EDNOTE. Suellen Stringer-Hye, compiler of the long-time NABOKV-L and ZEMBLA
feature on "VN in the Media" comments on DN's note of thanks to Azar Nafisi
re her book "Reading Lolita in Teheran." Dmitri Nabokov's posting follows.
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--On Friday, April 18, 2003 4:37 PM -0500 "Stringer-Hye, Suellen"
<suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu wrote:
I hope in the revamping, another National Library is not
destroyed. At the risk of self-promotion, here is the final
paragraph of an article I recently wrote on "Nabokov, Libraries
and the Art of Inquiry". A great tragedy has befallen a great
civilization.
"The difference between an ape's memory and human memory is the
difference between an ampersand and the British Museum library,"
Nabokov said in a 1969 interview with the BBC. Inquiry approaches
learning through exploration leading to discovery. Discovery
unfolds new understanding, which in turn reveals new meaning. The
process of inquiry is driven by innate curiosity, wonder,
interest and the passion to know, initiated when the learner
notices something that intrigues, surprises, or stimulates a
question. As Daniel J. Boorstin, former Librarian of Congress
writes, "We are all Seekers. We all want to know why." Nabokov
as a lepidopterist, scholar and writer was a seeker and he wrote
novels for people like himself. Chock-full of queries,
references, resemblances, false hints and amazing finds they pull
the reader into a text planted with jack-in-the box surprises
that send the reader back out to the dictionary, the
encyclopedia, the reference source, the library. And once a
source is uncovered, an allusion understood, the reader realizes
that in Nabokov's generous embrace the precious universal shared
record of humanity has now become a part of Nabokov's grandly
envisioned, richly patterned, universe. Life, love and libraries
have no future; in Nabokov, they are forever.
--On Thursday, April 17, 2003 7:01 PM -0700 "D. Barton Johnson"
<chtodel@cox.net wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Dmitri Nabokov
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:40 PM
Subject: azar nafisi
Dear Don,
I would like to reiterate publicly my thanks to Azar Nafisi, who
was kind enough to send me her book Reading Lolita in Tehran.
This is a story of great courage in a country where terror
reigns in the name of religion, and which should be high on
the list for revamping when we are done with Iraq.
DN
Dear Don,
Please post.
I would like to reiterate publically my thanks to Azar Nafisi,
who was kind enough to send me a copy of Reading Lolita in
Tehran.
---------------------------------------
Stringer-Hye, Suellen
Vanderbilt University
Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
---------------------------------------
Stringer-Hye, Suellen
Vanderbilt University
Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
---------------------------------------
Stringer-Hye, Suellen
Vanderbilt University
Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
To: <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: azar nafisi
Don,
Here's the post again. As you will see at the bottom, I'm
referring to DN's comment
This is a story of great courage in a country where terror
reigns in the name of religion, and which should be high on
the list for revamping when we are done with Iraq.
EDNOTE. Suellen Stringer-Hye, compiler of the long-time NABOKV-L and ZEMBLA
feature on "VN in the Media" comments on DN's note of thanks to Azar Nafisi
re her book "Reading Lolita in Teheran." Dmitri Nabokov's posting follows.
-----------------------------------------
--On Friday, April 18, 2003 4:37 PM -0500 "Stringer-Hye, Suellen"
<suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu wrote:
I hope in the revamping, another National Library is not
destroyed. At the risk of self-promotion, here is the final
paragraph of an article I recently wrote on "Nabokov, Libraries
and the Art of Inquiry". A great tragedy has befallen a great
civilization.
"The difference between an ape's memory and human memory is the
difference between an ampersand and the British Museum library,"
Nabokov said in a 1969 interview with the BBC. Inquiry approaches
learning through exploration leading to discovery. Discovery
unfolds new understanding, which in turn reveals new meaning. The
process of inquiry is driven by innate curiosity, wonder,
interest and the passion to know, initiated when the learner
notices something that intrigues, surprises, or stimulates a
question. As Daniel J. Boorstin, former Librarian of Congress
writes, "We are all Seekers. We all want to know why." Nabokov
as a lepidopterist, scholar and writer was a seeker and he wrote
novels for people like himself. Chock-full of queries,
references, resemblances, false hints and amazing finds they pull
the reader into a text planted with jack-in-the box surprises
that send the reader back out to the dictionary, the
encyclopedia, the reference source, the library. And once a
source is uncovered, an allusion understood, the reader realizes
that in Nabokov's generous embrace the precious universal shared
record of humanity has now become a part of Nabokov's grandly
envisioned, richly patterned, universe. Life, love and libraries
have no future; in Nabokov, they are forever.
--On Thursday, April 17, 2003 7:01 PM -0700 "D. Barton Johnson"
<chtodel@cox.net wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Dmitri Nabokov
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:40 PM
Subject: azar nafisi
Dear Don,
I would like to reiterate publicly my thanks to Azar Nafisi, who
was kind enough to send me her book Reading Lolita in Tehran.
This is a story of great courage in a country where terror
reigns in the name of religion, and which should be high on
the list for revamping when we are done with Iraq.
DN
Dear Don,
Please post.
I would like to reiterate publically my thanks to Azar Nafisi,
who was kind enough to send me a copy of Reading Lolita in
Tehran.
---------------------------------------
Stringer-Hye, Suellen
Vanderbilt University
Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
---------------------------------------
Stringer-Hye, Suellen
Vanderbilt University
Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu
---------------------------------------
Stringer-Hye, Suellen
Vanderbilt University
Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu