This exchange between Scottie and Diego makes me grateful for being on
this list :). I hope you guys don't hesitate to continue the conversation.
Jim
Diego M. Dell'Era wrote:
> "Although I've just mentioned Conrad admiringly I have to
> say that he & Nabokov reveal their fundamental uneasiness
> with their second language by their very pyrotechnical skill
> in it. I can admire them - but never really love them.
>
> Scottie B."
>
> Perhaps that is the prevalent feeling for acomplished writers and
> masters of their mother tongue. I don't presume to speak for all
> foreign subscribers to this list, but out here in the colonies, as far
> as this finisterrean speaking is concerned, some of us still share
> an outmoded devotion for Conrad. He is, in a way, our man.
>
>
>
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