Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002686, Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:45:53 -0800

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Re: Pale Fire and Eliot's Wasteland (fwd)
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From: Tim Henderson <thenders@mail.lanline.com>
Also see -- this is a real delight -- Humbert Humbert's parody of
'Ash-Wednesday' in the last chapter (?) of Lolita."Your best, as far as
I'm concerned", says Quilty..
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From thenders@mail.lanline.com Mon Jan 5 09:44:50 1998
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 10:31:13 -0500
From: Tim Henderson <thenders@mail.lanline.com>
To: CHTODEL@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Subject: Eliot/VN

Dr. Johnson,
I was just fooling around on the web and noticed there's a copy of the
"Lolita" poem on the web...dunno if it's kosher copyrightwise but Mr.
Morrison might be interested....
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ee0r/justice.html

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Donald Barton Johnson wrote:

> To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Pale Fire and Wasteland
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jim Morrison <jamorrison@metronet.de>
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> The recent Pale Fire thread has made me wonder if there has
> been anything written on T.S. Eliot's relationship
> to the composer of the end notes to The Wasteland.
> Do most people consider those notes to be Eliot's sincere
> explanation of what is going on in the poem? Or, are
> the notes considered to of doubtful integrity?
> I know there are a few references to Eliot in Pale Fire. Has
> there been much written on how Nabokov felt about Eliot?



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