Dear List,

I know there are many misuses of Nabokov, what would he think of this take on his words?

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/19/occupy-writers-dot-com/#.TrObgL8fDL4.twitter

I find this twisting of words the most interesting:

"The profession of the writer, by contrast, depends upon freedom, and especially upon a fanatical absolutist commitment to freedom of expression. As Nabokov said in a 1964 interview with Playboy,

[S]ince my youth — I was nineteen when I left Russia — my political creed has remained as bleak and changeless as an old gray rock. It is classical to the point of triteness. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art. The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me.



Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art: there is the only political creed which can unite all writers into a political party. Many prominent American writers have lost interest in freedom, however, and have become obsessed with a world that is divided between rich and poor. Small wonder, then, that more and more readers are losing interest in them."



Emily

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
-William Styron

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