Sunday, April 05, 2009
Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Vladimir Nabokov, Ada. Extremely sticky. More than a little affected. And yet- beautifully allusive, velvety, with spurts of enchanting wordplay. But the language was too indulgent to sustain and the romance was more ridiculous and annoying than erotic. I felt it was closely related to to a book I might enjoy, but I was never able to stop rolling my eyes.
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Did you know that Nabokov predicted the emoticon way back in 1969? He said in an interview: "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile — some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question."
Of course, it took the geniuses in AOL chat rooms to decades later come up with the idea of turning your head sideways.
are you lying?
I absolutely am not. Here is a link to the interview: http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter11.txt
bizarre
he writes exactly like he interviews.
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