Re: Speaking of Nabokov...

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:53:47 +1000

Whatever happened with the Giles Weaver thing? Did anyone ever own up to
it? It sounds like an anagram of something ... I'll keep in touch if I work
out it spells I Jerry Catcher Guy or something (:

Interesting though, the Nabokov allusion.

Camille 
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> I don't know if this is what started the whole Nabokov thing or not,
> but I was in the University of Richmond library Thursday and actually
> found bound editions of "The Phoenix" containing the infamous Giles
> Weaver letters.  In one of them, Weaver writes,
> 
> " Nabokov says ---
>   What?  What did you say, you mental health
>   industrialists?  you don't care what Nabokov
>   says?
>   Never fear, I am a principles person and I don't
>   persecute my companion in illness. "
> 
> Conincidence?
> 
> 
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