Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0006748, Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:01:03 -0700

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Fw: Fw: Boredom...
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From: "Suellen Stringer-Hye" <Stringers@LIBRARY.Vanderbilt.edu>
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> I'd like to second Nick Grundy's opinion. Isn't this why listserves exist?
> Hasn't everyone learned to ignore or delete threads that are not of
> interest? I thought this was common practice.
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> ---Suellen
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> On 6 Sep 2002, at 9:51, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
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> Subject: Boredom...
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> > Dieter Zimmer wrote:
> > >Brian and I are so close on this (and much more) that perhaps we should
> > >not pursue it, especially as other readers seem to find it a great
bore.
> > >Just one more remark which the bored guys and gals should by all means
> > >skip.
> >
> > Indeed they should - but, without wishing to second-guess those kind
> enough to provide and maintain the list, please don't curtail your
> discussion because a handful of people are so irked by the herculean task
of
> pressing delete that they feel bound to report this to the rest of us.
> Heaven knows what they were expecting when they signed up, but I perhaps
> rashly assumed the list would discuss Nabokov's life and work - something
> which, IMHO, the mimicry thread does rather admirably...
> >
> > Nick.
> Suellen Stringer-Hye
> Jean and Alexander Heard Library
> Vanderbilt University
> stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu