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Re: Query: "real life" (fwd)
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From: Thomas Seifrid <seifrid.las.usc@hermes.usc.edu>
(Hi, Eric)
I'm pretty sure it's in the afterword to *Lolita*.
Tom Seifrid
At 07:32 PM 9/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>From: naiman@socrates.berkeley.edu
>
> In Strong Opinions "Nabokov says "I tend more and more to regard the
>objective existence of all events as a form of impure imagination -- hence
>my inverted commas around 'reality.'" I seem to recall him saying the
>same thing somewhere about the phrase "real life." Does anyone know where
>that point is made?
>
>
> Eric Naiman
>
(Hi, Eric)
I'm pretty sure it's in the afterword to *Lolita*.
Tom Seifrid
At 07:32 PM 9/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>From: naiman@socrates.berkeley.edu
>
> In Strong Opinions "Nabokov says "I tend more and more to regard the
>objective existence of all events as a form of impure imagination -- hence
>my inverted commas around 'reality.'" I seem to recall him saying the
>same thing somewhere about the phrase "real life." Does anyone know where
>that point is made?
>
>
> Eric Naiman
>