Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0021329, Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:03:45 -0200

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Re: Fet and Botkin
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Alexey Sklyarenko: I would like to correct several inaccuracies in my previous posts...Although Maria Botkin (Fet's wife) inherited a little more than her sisters, she was not too rich. In 1862 (when un tuile fell on his head) Fet was not yet bald.

JM: No further reference to associate Fet's "tuile", to Ada's young Eric: "he was sent to Ex-en-Valais, whose crystal air was supposed at the time to strengthen young lungs; instead of which its worst hurricane hurled a roof tile at him, fatally fracturing his skull, Among the boy's belongings David van Veen found a number of poems and the draft of an essay entitled' Villa Venus: an Organized Dream'," I suppose?

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