Dear List,

I am not a Slavicist and did not know Cathy well, but we met at the Kyoto conference and bonded over our love of detective fiction.  She was beginning to work on Nabokov's metaphysical detective stories, the subject of her paper there.  We had each brought lots of books to read while traveling--this was in the days before ebooks, for me at least--and exchanged with each other the ones we had already consumed.  I think I ended up with her copy of the Judge Dee mystery stories. 

Cathy was warm, enthusiastic, and a great conversationalist.  I am sorry that I won't be able to share anecdotes and reading material with her at the next Nabokov conference I attend.

SES

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