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From Ian Crouch's Hilary Mantel and the Pitfalls of the Public
Lecture<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/02/hilary-mantel-and-the-pitfalls-of-the-public-lecture.html>
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*She might have suffered the transportation indignities of Nabokov’s poor
Professor Timofey Pnin, who, when we meet him, is seated comfortably in a
compartment on what we learn is the wrong train, on his way to deliver a
lecture—“Are the Russian People Communist?”—to the august ladies of the
Cremona Women’s Club. He soon learns of the mistake, too, and a conductor
sends him from the train to wait for a promised bus. What follows
qualifies, as the narrator promises, as “still better sessions in the way
of humor.”*
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Juan Martinez
-- http://www.fulmerford.com
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Lecture<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/02/hilary-mantel-and-the-pitfalls-of-the-public-lecture.html>
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*She might have suffered the transportation indignities of Nabokov’s poor
Professor Timofey Pnin, who, when we meet him, is seated comfortably in a
compartment on what we learn is the wrong train, on his way to deliver a
lecture—“Are the Russian People Communist?”—to the august ladies of the
Cremona Women’s Club. He soon learns of the mistake, too, and a conductor
sends him from the train to wait for a promised bus. What follows
qualifies, as the narrator promises, as “still better sessions in the way
of humor.”*
--
Juan Martinez
-- http://www.fulmerford.com
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
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