theoretically, it could have been good or even great but was awful, but was also instantly suspect, yet to be fair, giving it a read to see what was up, one then wonders at that magazine even publishing it

same magazine that published VN??? they don't even get the story or images (e.g., reclining man viewed from window, elbows up) (its images inseparable from everything else about the story, the writing)

snapshot:

"Across the narrow yard where the rain tinkled in the dark against some battered ash cans, windows were blandly alight and in one of them a blacktrousered man with his bare elbows raised could be seen lying supine on a untidy bed."


Barrie Karp
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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Jansy <jansy@aetern.us> wrote:
Barrie Karp: There's a "takeoff" (or reflection on) in today's (May 28, 2012) The New Yorker by Lorrie Moore in the fiction section on VN's famous story "Signs and Symbols." I only read the first sentence of the Lorrie Moore story so far (and looked at the picture/illustration) and realized it.
 
Jansy Mello: A "takeoff"? Or is it a "takefrom" without soaring? What a strange exercise. Like Barrie, I didn't read more than the first or a third sentence. Is this a regular literary practice? 
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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Vladimir Mylnikov <vmylnikov@yahoo.com> wrote:
honestly i don't think it is worth reading - i have read two paragraphs - plagiarizm plus "takeoff" should be better than the original but Lorrie Moore is obviously not
thanks for posting
vladimir m

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Subject: [NABOKV-L] SIGHTING: Signs & Symbols in New Yorker story
There's a "takeoff" (or reflection on) in today's (May 28, 2012) The New Yorker by Lorrie Moore in the fiction section on VN's famous story "Signs and Symbols." I only read the first sentence of the Lorrie Moore story so far (and looked at the picture/illustration) and realized it.
The Lorrie Moore story is attached (I have not read it yet).
 
Barrie
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