What the elm?

Jesper Svedberg · 07 Jun 2007, 11:38 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: jsvedberg at gmail.com (Jesper Svedberg)
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:38:58 +0200
Subject: (urth) What the elm?
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JWillard skrev:

> Another influence, that I've never really seen anyone address, is 
> Nabokov.  Wolfe admits the influence, and Nabokov is a tricky, tricky 
> man, and I believe Wolfe learned much from him.

While Wolfe has said that he has read Nabokov, I seem to remember that 
he also said that he first read him very late in his life (that is, 
after he found his own voice). I can't really seem to find a cite for 
this though, except this post: 
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0025/0091.shtml so perhaps someone 
knows more about it than I do.

   // Jesper

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