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It's a bit like stone soup. Cryptic or poignant, cabbage or peas -- put in what you've got; the one essential ingredient is the magic stone, which in the case of dedications is personality, as so often in life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51zW8Dxfo%2BL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"132\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. \u003Cb\u003EDaniel Nester in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2479386\"\u003EHow to be inappropriate\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFor our daughter, Miriam Lee Nester.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EI’ll try to behave myself from now on.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI like the honesty of that \"try\", from someone who is so attuned to the inappropriate as to be able to offer an absorbing variety of examples, including \"an Australian opposition leader caught sniffing a woman's chair; two more Australians, cadets this time, of Chinese descent singled out by superiors to play-act Koreans in knife combat; a Russian formalist points out a playwright's disregard for logic, and offers as evidence how characters break into scenes with strange or 'inappropriate' remarks; a proposed new drug treats 'inappropriate' levels of separation anxiety in dogs... \".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn other words, he goes on to say, anything \"odd, out of place\". Hey! I think I've found an example of that:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E It just seems like the second something becomes really solemn [like poetry], I want to do something wrong with it. I cant help but think it has something to do with being an alter boy. \u003C\/i\u003E-- from an interview with Daniel Nester, as quoted by the online magazine\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.smithmag.net\/memoirville\/2010\/02\/17\/pull-my-finger-an-interview-with-daniel-nester-author-of-how-to-be-inappropriate\/\"\u003ESmith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E2. \u003Cb\u003EJane Hill in \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2259784__SJane%20Hill%20in%20The%20Murder%20Ballad__Orightresult__U__X1?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003EThe Murder Ballad\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFor my dad, who was proud of me\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis made me so happy, and all the more when I saw a photo of Jane Hill.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is Jane Hill, isn't she great?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstandardissuemagazine.com%2Fapplication%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F09%2FJane-Hill-260x260.jpg\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Jane Hill\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/standardissuemagazine.com\/application\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jane-Hill-260x260.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. And these are the Nabokovs, Vladimir and\u0026nbsp;Véra:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Vladimir and Vera Nabokov on the butterfly trail. Photo: Courtesy of Christie’s\" src=\"http:\/\/rbth.com\/468x312\/assets\/images\/2011-06\/Big\/468-Nabokov-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E(Photo courtesy of Christie's)\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EVladimir Nabokov in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__SSpeak%2C%20memory%20%3A%20an%20autobiography%20revisited%20Lw%3D%3D%20Vladimir%20Nabokov%20SMCLN%20with%20an%20introduction%20by%20Brian%20Boyd.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003ESpeak memory\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__S%09%20Lolita%20Lw%3D%3D%20by%20Vladimir%20Nabokov.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ELolita\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ci\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__S%09%20Pnin%20Lw%3D%3D%20Vladimir%20Nabokov.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EPnin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ci\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__S%09%20Pale%20fire%20Lw%3D%3D%20Vladimir%20Nabokov%20SMCLN%20with%20an%20introduction%20by%20Richard%20Rorty.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EPale fire,\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__S%09%20Ada%20or%20Ardor%20%3A%20a%20family%20chronicle%20Lw%3D%3D%20Vladimir%20Nabokov.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003EAda\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__S%09%20Transparent%20things%20%3A%20a%20novel%20Lw%3D%3D%20by%20Vladimir%20Nabokov.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003ETransparent things\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003Eand\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__SLook%20at%20the%20harlequins%21%20Lw%3D%3D%20Vladimir%20Nabokov.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003ELook at the harlequins\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFor Véra\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003EI learned this from Brian Boyd at this year's Writers' Festival, where he was presenting \u003Ci\u003ELetters to Véra,\u003C\/i\u003E the book he edited of Nabokov's letters to his wife over their 52 years of marriage, the longest marriage in literary history, if I remember correctly. Starting from his memoir \u003Ci\u003ESpeak memory \u003C\/i\u003Ein 1951 and until his death, Nabokov dedicated every one of his books to Véra.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.brainpickings.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/butterfly6.jpeg?w=480\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.brainpickings.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/butterfly6.jpeg?w=480\" width=\"121\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe passionate lepidopterist also presented her with the first copy of each book as it arrived from the publisher, having first drawn in it an imaginary butterfly, a different one every time, playing on the occasion. Here's the harlequin butterfly he drew in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ELook at the harlequins, \u003C\/i\u003Epossibly a reference not just to the book but also to the harlequin mask\u0026nbsp;Véra\u0026nbsp;was wearing when they first met.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn their 43rd wedding anniversary, in Véra's copy of \u003Ci\u003EThe Gift\u003C\/i\u003E Nabokov wrote \"Here is the tenderest of butterflies worthy of the anniversary, 1925-68\", and labelled the butterfly he drew a male Charaxes Verae Nabokov. I looked up Charaxes. It is a genus of butterflies known for their constancy in returning always to the same spot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780385531580\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E4.      \u003Cb\u003EJules Feiffer in \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__S%09%20Backing%20into%20forward%20%3A%20a%20memoir%20Lw%3D%3D%20Jules%20Feiffer.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003EBacking into forward\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFor my children, my grandchild, my future grandchildren – \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Success is nothing to sneeze at, but failure, too,\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Offers great possibilities.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAnd always remember, do not let your judges define you.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI saved this one for last. A summa cum laude dedication, a capture in amber of that moment in which the book is finished and ready to be sent off, a message to the dedicatee, but also to us, idiosyncratic and direct from the heart. I love the dedication and I loved the book, a memoir by the great cartoonist, playwright\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eand illustrator (most notably of the children's-classic-for-all-ages\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/search\/C__SThe%20phantom%20tollbooth%20Lw%3D%3D%20by%20Norton%20Juster%20SMCLN%20illustrations%20by%20Jules%20Feiffer%20SMCLN%20introuction%20by%20Maurice%20Sendak.__Orightresult__U?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=def\"\u003EThe Phantom Tollbooth\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/i\u003E. A boy growing up in the Bronx who lacked \"the basic Bronx gene, the ball-playing gene\", with a father \"primarily gentle and not very significant in my life -- or his own\", a mother whom he would happily have murdered, but didn't want to wound. The girl he hitch-hiked across America to rejoin, who when he shows up at her door can't change her weekend plans. \"If you didn't love me anymore, why didn't you write me? I wouldn't have come!\" he says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I didn't know I didn't love you,\" she said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"When did you find out?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"When I opened the door and saw you.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you have never at any time in your life thought that could happen to you, this book isn't for you, and I feel sorry for you for that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you'd like to see more dedications, here are the posts:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2014\/10\/dedicated-by-or-to-beats.html\"\u003EDedicated by -- or to -- the beats\u003C\/a\u003E: Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, and Bob Orr\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2012\/08\/book-dedications-n5.html\"\u003EBook dedications n. 5\u003C\/a\u003E: Balzac, Rostand, Conrad, Edward Gorey, and Neil Gaiman\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2011\/10\/best-book-dedications-no-4.html\"\u003EBest book dedications n. 4\u003C\/a\u003E: Hunter S. Thompson, Diana Wynne Jones, Lady Chatterley's lover\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2010\/08\/my-dedications-collection.html\"\u003EMy dedications collection\u003C\/a\u003E:\u0026nbsp; Christine Lvov Lealand, Larry McMurtry, JD Salinger\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2009\/08\/dedications-again.html\"\u003EDedications, again\u003C\/a\u003E: Cornell Woolrich, Michael King, H. Rider Haggard\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2008\/08\/dedicated-to-one-i-love.html\"\u003EDedicated to the one I love\u003C\/a\u003E: Ken Kesey and Diane Wakoski\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7238255145974411556\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/book-dedications-of-year.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/7238255145974411556"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/7238255145974411556"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/book-dedications-of-year.html","title":"Book dedications of the year"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-7620341859855211867"},"published":{"$t":"2015-06-29T23:59:00.001+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-01-12T15:04:53.948+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"AWF"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"awf15"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Brian Boyd"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nabokov"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Vladimir Nabokov's letters to Véra at AWF15"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cimg height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RIoFOPLybqs\/U_YCf7faVcI\/AAAAAAAAALU\/R5rgpp7kVs8\/s200\/Vera%2Band%2BVladimir.jpg\" width=\"158\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003Cimg alt=\"Auckland Writers Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/assets\/themes\/writersfestival\/images\/logo.svg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFascinating, but another time, please spare us the actor!\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI've never seen it on the list of ways that little New Zealand punches above its weight, but it should be there, that the foremost Nabokov scholar in the world is our own Brian Boyd, graduate of the University of Canterbury, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Auckland. Prof. Boyd has written two award-winning biographies of the man (\u003Ci\u003EThe Russian Years \u003C\/i\u003Eand \u003Ci\u003EThe American Years), \u003C\/i\u003Ea book on \u003Ci\u003EAda, \u003C\/i\u003Ea book on \u003Ci\u003EPale Fire, \u003C\/i\u003Eedited Nabokov's collected works for the Library of America, and for another publisher Nabokov's unpublished and uncollected writings\u003Ci\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003Ewritten the introduction to the centennial edition of Nabokov's memoir \u003Ci\u003ESpeak Memory\u003C\/i\u003E, published a collection of essays and personal reflections on Nabokov (\u003Ci\u003EStalking Nabokov),\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ejust off the top of my head, and was now here before us as co-editor of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2996569\"\u003ELetters to Véra\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ea collection of Nabokov's correspondence to his wife, from 1923 when they met until his death in 1977. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe's also the person who taught me to say Na-bo'-kov instead of \u0026nbsp;Na'-bo-kov. It promised well! And on top of that, we were going to have Michael Hurst on hand reading excerpts from the letters!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe crowded in to the Upper NZI Room, and out filed Prof. Boyd, Jan Cronin, his colleague in the English Dept. at the University of Auckland who was chairing the session, and... surprise! not Michael Hurst! He had not been able to make it, and was being replaced by another actor, Stephen L.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe first question was a surprise as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Tell us about his love life? Was it different from our assumptions?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Our assumptions\"? I looked around. Did we have assumptions about the love life of Vladimir Nabokov? Such as? Puzzling? Irreverent? Cerebral?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs it turns out, Nabokov's love life was, once he met her, really all about Véra. During their more than fifty years together, she was his first reader, his typist, his editor, his researcher, his confidante, and his love for her, as expressed in the letters which make up this book, was tender and rapturous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENabokov met Véra in 1923 in Berlin, where his family, in exile from Bolshevik Russia, had ended up, in the large Russian émigré community which had formed there. He was 24, and beginning to make a name for himself as a poet and translator, under the pseudonym V. Sirin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir paths first crossed at a charity ball, but the encounter which would change both their lives came later. Out walking one evening, Nabokov was approached by a woman wearing a black satin carnival-type mask. That woman was Véra, who had decided that Nabokov was the greatest hope of Russian Literature, and was playing the \"high class stalker\", \u0026nbsp;according to Boyd, \"high-class\" in that she never took her mask off during their conversation, apparently because she did not want him to be influenced by her beauty as she recited verses of the poetry of V. Sirin to him. And that was how the two met, both in some way disguised. Nabokov readers will recognise a favourite theme.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe wrote a poem asking \"Are you my fate?\" and yes, she was. He did, however, have a trip to France already planned, and it was from there that he wrote his first letter to her.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStephen L got to his feet, and read.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I won’t hide it: I’m so unused to being – well, understood, perhaps – so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke, a masquerade trick… But then… And there are things that are hard to talk about – you rub off their marvellous pollen with the touch of a word…”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow exquisite is that, \"You rub off their marvellous pollen\"? Unfortunately Stephen L. had decided to play it as he would a pompous provincial in a Chekhov play. As I listened unbelievingly, he puffed out his chest and thundered,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I will be in Berlin (beat) on the 10th (beat, beat), or the 11th!\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGulp, and back to Prof. Boyd's narrative. \"He and she always believed that fate was trying to push them together... They had a very romantic sense of their relationship, all the way through.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere were difficult times, too. When in France in 1937, looking for a job, for a way to get his family out of Nazi Berlin (all the more important as\u0026nbsp;Véra\u0026nbsp;was Jewish), Nabokov fell into an affair with an aspiring young Italian poet,\u0026nbsp;Irina Guadanini.\u0026nbsp;Véra\u0026nbsp;apparently hears rumours. We hear from Stephen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Not a word from you yet my love!\" trumpets Stephen, all in one breath. A long pause, and he resumes in a low, disconsolate register. \"Maybe tomorrow.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen we're back to the trumpet charge. \"Can't write more today!\" A long pause, and again, the sad, descending tone. \"They're coming to take me out. I have to go to a party.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe moved on to the story of Boyd's relationship with\u0026nbsp;Véra Nabokov,\u0026nbsp;which started\u0026nbsp;after she saw his PhD thesis and invited him to visit her in Montreux, where the Nabokovs had made their home after the publication of \u003Ci\u003ELolita.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003EThe first suggestion was that he catalogue her husband's archives, but eventually the idea of a biography came up. He got a fellowship and went back to Montreux, spending 18 months with Véra, at that point in her eighties. He saw her every day. She never stopped\u0026nbsp;calling him Mr Boyd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe knew she had Nabokov's letters to her, though she had destroyed hers to him, and seeing them was one of the enticements which had led him to accept her invitation to work on a biography. But\u0026nbsp;Véra\u0026nbsp;would never let him see them or hold them, she would only read them into\u0026nbsp;his tape recorder as he sat near by, leaving some personal parts, some endearments, out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDmitri Nabokov, their son and translator of many of his father's works, tried to help. \"He was in a wheel chair [not from breaking his neck in one of his Ferraris, he had recovered from that, but from complications from diabetes]. He was a big man, he had been an opera singer, a mountaineer. He said, Search! You can search anywhere in the apartment! So I did. I found lots of things, but I couldn't find the letters!\" He had to go back to using the transcripts of the readings\u0026nbsp;Véra\u0026nbsp;had done. Only after her death did he get to see the letters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETime for a reading. This one ends with a hail-fellow-well-met \"Hugs!\" followed by a long pause, and finally a throaty, prayer-like \"and adoration, V.\" If you know me and you ran into me at the Festival, you probably heard me imitate this. A lot of people did!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENabokov wrote\u0026nbsp;Véra\u0026nbsp;every day he was away from her, during the whole time of their marriage. And, according\u0026nbsp;to Boyd, \"She wrote back about one in five times\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToo, says Boyd, the letters show some new sides of the great author. \"He is enchanted by animals and children... Here, just let me read a couple of parts of his letters where he talks about animals.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it's a fine reading! We can actually hear Nabokov's voice. Was this a Nabokovian ploy on Prof. Boyd's part, to present it as but a whim of the moment?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlas, we had to return to Stephen L., for a final reading not devoid of irony.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I cannot write a word without hearing how you will pronounce it,” Nabokov wrote, and Stephen L. read.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI'm on the request list for the book. The lyricism and wit of the letters may have been hard to catch at the session, but I've since read some excerpts online, including ten splendid ones posted by the Thought Catalog site under the title \"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/koty-neelis\/2015\/01\/10-quotes-from-vladimir-nabokovs-love-letters-that-will-make-you-swoon-for-an-old-fashioned-romance\/\"\u003ELove letters that will make you swoon\u003C\/a\u003E\". Maria Popova compares them to Frida Kahlo's letters to Diego Rivera, or the letters between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is next for the doyen of Nabokov studies? \"I want to do a book on \u003Ci\u003ELolita\u003C\/i\u003E, because I don't think any of us understand \u003Ci\u003ELolita \u003C\/i\u003Eas Nabokov intended us to understand it.\" I'll be on the request list for that one, too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy favourite of the stories Brian Boyd told us was the one about how\u0026nbsp;Véra, aged 85 while she and he were working on the\u0026nbsp;letters, was so deaf as to render some conversations difficult, especially if you add on the New Zealand accent, which she apparently had great difficulty understanding. At one point, he was talking about butterflies -- as he pointed out, surely not an uncommon word for a conversation about her noted lepidopterist husband.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"She kept understanding me to be saying 'paradise'. After two or three rounds of 'Butterflies,' 'Paradise?', 'No, butterflies!', 'Paradise?', Dmitri finally rolled his wheelchair over and boomed at her \"BUT-TA-FLIES!\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/03043\/vera_3043116a.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/00\/8d\/0a\/008d0a2c914baacc8702bd20efb9df00.jpg\" width=\"214\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- \u003Ci\u003EKaren\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7620341859855211867\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/vladimir-nabokovs-letters-to-vera-at.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/7620341859855211867"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/7620341859855211867"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/vladimir-nabokovs-letters-to-vera-at.html","title":"Vladimir Nabokov's letters to Véra at AWF15"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RIoFOPLybqs\/U_YCf7faVcI\/AAAAAAAAALU\/R5rgpp7kVs8\/s72-c\/Vera%2Band%2BVladimir.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-799175505197926442"},"published":{"$t":"2015-04-14T22:00:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-04-16T22:30:36.803+12:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dorothy Parker"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"George Bernard Shaw"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Katherine Mansfield"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mark Twain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mary McCarthy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nabokov"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Oscar Wilde"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"TS Eliot"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Winston Churchill"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Wit"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The wickedest author to author insults"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Salman Rushdie (AAP file)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.3news.co.nz\/3news\/AM\/2012\/10\/2\/271233\/Salman-Rushdie_AAP_1200.jpg?width=700\" height=\"212\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E(Photo: AAP File)\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIs everyone up on the literary scandal du jour? The one where Salman Rushdie rated a couple dozen modern classics on Goodreads, and his clamorously low ratings for many of them (\u003Ci\u003ETo Kill a Mockingbird, \u003C\/i\u003Ethree stars out of five?! \u003Ci\u003ELucky Jim \u003C\/i\u003Eonly one?!) were shared with the 30 million members of the site, as is the wont of a \"social networking website\", resulting in a few shocked people and much media kerfuffle? Sir Salman claims he didn't dream they would be on public view and he was just playing around, which sounded a lot like saying he didn't inhale, but he did stick up for his right not to like Kingsley Amis books, which has to count for something.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZero stars from me for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/sir-salman-rushdie-claims-i-was-just-fooling-around-as-his-ratings-of-other-authors-work-go-viral-10156390.html\"\u003EThe Independent,\u003C\/a\u003E which described Sir Salman as having \"sparked controversy with some trenchant opinions of some authors widely regarded as among the finest of their generation\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStar-rating a book is not a \"trenchant opinion\"! Trenchant opinions are, well, trenchant: from the French, meaning cutting, sharp. They involve skill, and are not done with an abacus, nor with a blunt instrument such as Bret Easton Ellis used on David Foster Wallace a few years ago when he\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2012\/sep\/06\/bret-easton-ellis-david-foster-wallace\"\u003Edeclared\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\"I continue to find [him] the most tedious, overrated, tortured, pretentious writer of my generation\", an earlier scandal du jour.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best trenchant opinions make use of trenchant wit, as with Oscar Wilde's arch comment about the 18th century master of the heroic couplet: “There are several ways to dislike poetry; one is to dislike it, the other is to read Alexander Pope.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1355161\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781854795427\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2540386\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6e\/Portrait_of_Alexander_Pope.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"159\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere are some of my favourite author to author insults, witty, mostly trenchant, always wicked.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2012\/06\/06\/parker_sq-555c1acad683eb8cac4fe9fbc8008fcc744634a6.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2012\/06\/06\/parker_sq-555c1acad683eb8cac4fe9fbc8008fcc744634a6.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/carolwallace.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/06\/6a00ccff930f92d75600cd97047ac64cd5-500pi.jpg?w=214\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/carolwallace.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/06\/6a00ccff930f92d75600cd97047ac64cd5-500pi.jpg?w=214\" width=\"143\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor caustic, you can't go wrong with Dorothy Parker. Here's what she said in The New Yorker about Lady Asquith: \"That gifted entertainer, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, author of \u003Ci\u003EThe Autobiography of Margot Asquith\u003C\/i\u003E (four volumes, neatly boxed, suitable for throwing purposes), reverts to tripe in a new book deftly entitled “Lay Sermons.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECited by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2013\/03\/26\/great-force\/\"\u003EQuote Investigator\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;as part of the evidence proving Dorothy did not actually quip, in a review of \u003Ci\u003EAtlas Shrugged\u003C\/i\u003E, \"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.\" \u0026nbsp;Alas. It made for good telling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlease note: our\u0026nbsp;copy\u0026nbsp;of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1557126\"\u003EAsquith memoirs\u003C\/a\u003E is a one-volume abridged version.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1425561\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Strong Opinions\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1415049454l\/12188.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"126\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1816000\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780684803357\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVladimir Nabokov on Hemingway, from his book \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1425561\"\u003EStrong Opinions\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E: “I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" br=\"\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F--gKA98BthkY%2FVK5bSihqJMI%2FAAAAAAAAAvs%2FRgi69bR2jQs%2Fs1600%2FTS%252BEliot.jpeg\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" width=\"147\" \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/84\/Edgar_Allan_Poe_daguerreotype_crop.png\" height=\"200\" width=\"142\" \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ET.S. Eliot attributed to Edgar Allan Poe “the intellect of a highly gifted person before puberty.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E(1948 Library of Congress lecture \"From Poe to Valery\")\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1213622\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9780151448203%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2156179\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9781582433158%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMary McCarthy's judgement on Lillian Hellman, proferred during an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, caused Hellman to sue her for libel, possibly not the wisest decision (shades of Oscar Wilde) in view of how many people came forth to testify to Hellman fabrications. Of course, it depends on what you want to get out of it. McCarthy was not wealthy and the cost of defending herself nearly ruined her, which she always suspected was the reason why the wealthy Hellman would not let go, through five long years. Only with Hellman's death was the case extinguished, if not the grudge, which I picture having been so strong as to still be lurking somewhere in the universe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1864889\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9781903933060%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yHbDWGvpcQA\/UFRTEwSERSI\/AAAAAAAAInw\/6xPPhDiWUh4\/s1600\/violet_trefusis.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-yHbDWGvpcQA%2FUFRTEwSERSI%2FAAAAAAAAInw%2F6xPPhDiWUh4%2Fs200%2Fviolet_trefusis.jpg\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=2501884760724421053\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EWhich reminds me of Nancy Mitford's quip that Violet Trefusis's memoir \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1428528\"\u003EDon't look round\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E, politely deemed \"unreliable\" by the Times Literary Supplement, ought to have been titled \u003Ci\u003EHere lies Mrs Trefusis.\u003C\/i\u003E (You can read more about Mrs.Trefusis, who never refuses, in the Books in the City post \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.co.nz\/2012\/03\/speak-memoir-title.html\"\u003ESpeak, Memoir title\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/www.wpclipart.com\/famous\/writer\/writers_M_to_S\/George_Bernard_Shaw.png\" height=\"200\" width=\"150\" \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2582798\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"syndetics-lc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781844861194\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA tale of two lions: George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill. Shaw had a play premiering and sent two tickets for the show to Churchill with a note, \"Here are two tickets for my opening night. Bring a friend, if you have one\". Churchill returned them, also with a note. It said, \"Sorry, I'm busy that night, but I would be available for the second night, if you have one\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2012\/03\/25\/two-tickets-shaw\/\"\u003EQuote Investigator\u003C\/a\u003E says the jury is still out on the accuracy of this story, despite noting that it is on record that GBS, aged 94, recounted the anecdote to his doctor. You have to wonder if it were the lead-up to a jest about the uncertainties of being nearly a century old.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2526571\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9780141182131%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1594118\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9781869416560%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKatherine Mansfield had this to say about\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2526571\"\u003EHowards End\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Eand its author, in her journal: \"E.M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd to finish off, my personal favourite.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDanger, danger, Janeites\u003C\/i\u003E! Someone's about to be outrageous about Jane Austen:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2522358\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.syndetics.com%2Findex.aspx%3Fisbn%3D9780520946996%2Fmc.gif%26upc%3D%26oclc%3D%26client%3Delgar\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2298948\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2298948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781921372438\/mc.gif\u0026amp;upc=\u0026amp;oclc=\u0026amp;client=elgar\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn an 1898 letter to his friend Joseph Twichell, Mark Twain confided: “I often want to criticise Jane Austen but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader. Every time I read \u003Ci\u003EPride and Prejudice\u003C\/i\u003E, I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E--\u003Ci\u003EKaren\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/799175505197926442\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/the-wickedest-author-to-author-insults.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/799175505197926442"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/799175505197926442"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/the-wickedest-author-to-author-insults.html","title":"The wickedest author to author insults"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-3738773000857069934"},"published":{"$t":"2015-02-19T17:31:00.000+13:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-10-14T22:04:00.448+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"#TBT"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"J.W. Dunne"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nabokov"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tim"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Throwback Thursday: An Experiment With Time"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/null\" name=\"_GoBack\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EGuest post by Tim.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EDreamt Monday 9 Feb\u003Cem\u003E: On holiday with family and cats. Staying in beachside house. Sea levels rise overnight due to some kind of lunar\/tidal anomaly. Woke to find house surrounded by water. Outside orca frolic and chase stingrays. Seems very menacing to me but children delighted and determined to jump in water to join in fun. I frantically run around stopping one from leaping out window into sea, only for another to escape and find new way to jump into water. Pedro (cat) somehow leaps into water too and also in danger of being eaten by orca.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white; min-height: 11px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/8\/8c\/An_Experiment_with_Time_book_cover.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"File:An Experiment with Time book cover.jpg\" data-file-height=\"240\" data-file-width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/8\/8c\/An_Experiment_with_Time_book_cover.jpg\" height=\"240\" jquery111209142533147028427=\"28\" width=\"240\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EThe above is part of the raw data I gathered while following the experimental method outlined in the book\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b1482052\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAn Experiment withTime\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eby J. W. Dunne.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"\u003EIt was a bestseller at the time of publication (1927) and ran into many editions, but had fallen into obscurity by the time I came across it eighty-something years later in the basement of the Central City Library. In this little book Dunne writes about time and human perception of it, and his theory that we sometimes catch glimpses of the future when we dream. His experiment basically asks the reader to record their dreams every night, and to study them and note any similarities between them and subsequent waking events.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white; min-height: 11px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EDunne was a very practical man apparently -- an aircraft engineer in the very early days of the field -- and goes to great pains to let us know that he is not interested in anything that cannot be explained rationally. \"This is not a book about 'occultism', and not a book about what is called 'psycho-analysis'\" he writes as soon as we get started. And it is interesting that he chose those two terms, too, because the crux of his argument rests upon the relationship between dreams and precognition. Keep clear, followers of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2523588\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFreud\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1583849\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMadame Blavatsky\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white; min-height: 11px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EHe writes in a friendly, professorial way that makes his theories seem so reasonable. And then he throws in some time-jargon such as:\u0026nbsp;\"the serialism of the fields of presentation involves the existence of a serial observer. In this respect every time-travelling field is the field apparent to a similarly travelling and similarly dimensioned observer. Observation by any such observer is observation by all observers pertaining to the dimensionally larger fields.\" Get it?\u0026nbsp; Sort of. And then, with diagrams and algebraic terms he outlines some convincing-looking ideas of time and\u0026nbsp;multi-dimensional\u0026nbsp;space and perception, and proves that we can all see the future in our dreams.\u0026nbsp;\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white; min-height: 11px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EIt all seems so convincing that when he describes his own personal experiences with prophetic dreams (like the time he dreamt of being on a volcanic island and being aware that it would erupt and kill 4000 people and the very next day he saw the newspaper headline “Volcano disaster in Martinique 4000 killed”). I'm with him. I mean, everyone has had dreams that seem spookily prescient right? Whether that is precognition or just some quirk of neurology I don't know; but have I always liked the idea that there are things in the natural world that we don’t perceive properly, and that one nice thing about humans is that we really want to\u0026nbsp;come up with ideas to explain them i.e. ghosts, UFOs,\u0026nbsp;precognitive dreams, string theory….\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EI read \u003Ci\u003EAn Experiment with Time\u003C\/i\u003E a while ago but was reminded of it when I saw an article in the Times Literary Supplement\u0026nbsp;(issue dated October 31 2014). In it was published the dream experiment as performed and described by Nabokov in 1964. Like Dunne, Nabokov was a man of scientific interests -- he was a well-respected amateur lepidopterist -- and also a Freud-denier. Nabokov seems genuinely open to the experiment and does seem to find some precognitive scraps amongst his dreams.\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; min-height: 11px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003ESome patches of prose in his dream diary are direct presentiments of his novel\u0026nbsp; \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1174385\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAda\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003Efrom 1967 (Van Veen, the 'hero' of Ada, writes a treatise on time, 'The Texture of Time', and describes his\u0026nbsp;precognitive dreams as \"dim-doom visions: fatidic-sign nightmares, thalamic calamities, menacing riddles.\u0026nbsp; Not infrequently the menace is well concealed, and the innocent incident will turn out to possess, if jotted down and looked up later, the kind of precognitive flavour that Dunne has explained by the action of \"reverse memory\").\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white; min-height: 11px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EAn Experiment with Time\u003C\/i\u003E was popular in its day. I\u0026nbsp;imagine earnest undergraduates in 1927 comparing dream diaries and finding thrilling grains of the future amongst them; or drunken dinner parties becoming suddenly hushed when prophecies are uncannily revealed. Maybe the real reason for its popularity was that Dunne’s experiment gave people permission to\u0026nbsp;talk openly about their dreams (one of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/511\/transcript\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESeven Things You’re Not Supposed To Talk About\u003C\/a\u003E ).\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white; min-height: 11px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EI wrote about one of my dreams because Dunne made it okay, and because a few days later something happened that seemed somehow familiar even as it happened…\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #232323; font-family: \u0026quot;Arial\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;sans-serif\u0026quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;\"\u003EThursday 12 Feb: \u003Cem\u003EEarly in morning both rabbits escaped and were running around neighbourhood gardens. Me and S----- running around like slapstick comedians trying to catch them. Pedro was having great time helping round them up. Some correlation? Coincidence? Maybe this relates to dream of 9\u003Csup\u003Eth \u003C\/sup\u003E?…Any possible significance in the fact that rabbit escape was morning after I saw meteorite light up night sky, before it crash-landed in the ocean?\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"background: white;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E-- Tim\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3738773000857069934\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/an-experiment-with-time.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3738773000857069934"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3738773000857069934"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/an-experiment-with-time.html","title":"Throwback Thursday: An Experiment With Time"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}}]}});