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#Nabokov

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(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>I was so lucky to get to go this summer to Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore. that opened in 1919 The line, to my delight, was incredibly long and everyone was happily waiting to check out the gems inside. Especially impressive to me were the collection of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Beat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beat</span></a> writers, Paul <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Auster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auster</span></a> and Vladimir <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nabokov</span></a> novels. I stayed for hours and bought a copy of James <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Baldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baldwin</span></a>'s Giovanni's Room.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ShakespeareAndCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShakespeareAndCompany</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/litstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>litstudies</span></a></p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>I was so lucky to get to go this summer to Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore. that opened in 1919 The line, to my delight, was incredibly long and everyone was happily waiting to check out the gems inside. Especially impressive to me were the collection of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Beat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beat</span></a> writers, Paul <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Auster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auster</span></a> and Vladimir <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nabokov</span></a> novels. I stayed for hours and bought a copy of James <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Baldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baldwin</span></a>'s Giovanni's Room.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ShakespeareAndCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShakespeareAndCompany</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/litstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>litstudies</span></a></p>
Neurone<p>J’écoute un Bookclub de France Cul sur Lolita. Même avec toutes les clefs en main, je trouve ce roman très difficile à lire, je n’ai pas réussi à le terminer, Humbert Humbert me donne vraiment trop la nausée . Que penses-tu, toi Masto de ce roman? <a href="https://masto.bike/tags/lolita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lolita</span></a> <a href="https://masto.bike/tags/nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nabokov</span></a> <a href="https://masto.bike/tags/vendredilecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vendredilecture</span></a></p>
Nat Oleander<p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nabokov</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/medialiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medialiteracy</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/quotations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotations</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/context" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>context</span></a></p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@deirdrespencer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>deirdrespencer</span></a></span>. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nabokov</span></a> knows ALL the words! In English, French, and Russian!</p>
Deirdre Spencer<p>My son gave me a book of (very) short stories by Nabokov for my birthday, and in the first tale, “The Wood-Sprite,” I came across a wonderful word that was new to me: tintinnabulation, meaning a ringing or tinkling sound. </p><p>It rather delighted me, so I thought I’d share it with you.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WordOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordOfTheDay</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vocabulary</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nabokov</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/tintinnabulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tintinnabulation</span></a></p>
Kenneth<p>⚮⚮⚮My everyday life would be a lot more pleasant if it were not bookended by brohams.<br>⚮⚮⚮Planted a garnet yam.<br>⚮⚮⚮Was going to regularize my reading and was sucked in by <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nabokov</span></a> help</p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://glammr.us/@BuffaloResearch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BuffaloResearch</span></a></span>. Love the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NYPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYPL</span></a>. So grateful to have read their <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nabokov</span></a> materials for a piece I wrote on Ada, or Ardor, the word or, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Poe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poe</span></a>, and the "O" and the "R" in the word Nevermore (See <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TheRaven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRaven</span></a>, of course, and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThePhilosophyOfComposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThePhilosophyOfComposition</span></a>).</p>
Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd<p>I know I really should be better than being suckered into the ‘utterly subservient &amp; loyal &amp; ridiculously beautiful sad-smiling virtual women’ tropes that are being played with (or perhaps even exploited) in <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/bladerunner2049" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bladerunner2049</span></a> but then they cast <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/AnadeArmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnadeArmas</span></a> as Joi and have her bring out <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/Nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nabokov</span></a> ‘s <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/PaleFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleFire</span></a> &amp; offer to read it out loud and, well, um…</p>
Eric Roston<p>4. Ada, or Ardor | Nabokov 1969<br>The title itself is a puzzle before you even open to the first (dense) page. "Ad" is "hell" in Russian, "da" means "yes" and in British English "Ada" and "Ardour" are homophones, so it all sounds like ["Ada oh Ada"]. A typically lyrical, despicable <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nabokov</span></a> love story (the protagonist's surname is Russian for "guilt" [Veen]), a lifetime long, the whole thing taking place among and between three languages, on another planet. <br><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/ada-or-ardor-a-family-chronicle-vladimir-nabokov/15563782?ean=9780679725220" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookshop.org/p/books/ada-or-ar</span><span class="invisible">dor-a-family-chronicle-vladimir-nabokov/15563782?ean=9780679725220</span></a></p>
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