Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0003831, Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:00:50 -0800

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Re: Query: Surrealist painter in "Spring in Fialta" (fwd)
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From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Query: Surrealist painter in "Spring in Fialta" (fwd)

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From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>

The sentence which precedes it in PNIN explains why: "... there is nothing
more banal and more bourgeois than paranoia." Orwell, in 1944, came to a
somewhat similar conclusion when he decided that despite all scandalous
objects, Dali was basically an Edwardian (thus very "bourgeois") -- but
one with severe sexual and other psychological perversions, like
necrophilia (in "Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali").

Galya Diment

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Donald Barton Johnson wrote:

> From: Earl Sampson <esampson@cu.campuscwix.net>
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> Wayne Daniels wrote:
>
> >
> > Doesn't N. say somewhere that Dali is really Norman Rockwell's twin who, as
> > an infant, was kidnapped by gypsies? (snort, wheeze)
> >
> > Sorry. Carry on.
> >
> > Wayne Daniels
>
> Yes, in PNIN, Chapter Four, Section 5 (attributed to Victor's art teacher).
>