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To: carranza2 who wrote (70746)10/1/2006 8:05:55 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön  Read Replies (2) of 110194
 
Nabokov would never use a word like "quack" if a great one like "witch doctor" was handy.

sorry, dude, but he used both terms. and my feelings are really hurt that you didn't pick up the Pynchonism here!!!
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as you surely know, Pynchon akshelly took a class from Nabokov at Colombia, but found the accent impenetrable.

re: Viennese ______, see, e.g.:
lolitariddle.com
"To understand why Nabokov decided to pull such an outrageous trick on his readership and literary critics we need to understand at least three things. Firstly, we must remember that Nabokov utterly detested Sigmund Freud. In Solving Nabokov's Lolita Riddle I have argued that Nabokov chose to import his childhood trauma onto US soil in a bid to defeat his long term arch-enemy. Nabokov loathed Freud's cornerstone 'Oedipus complex' theory which denied the real brutality of incest by transporting it off onto a terrain of fantasy-addled myth. Nabokov's contempt for Freud is well documented in interviews, letters, memoirs as well as the introductions added to some of his novels. There he variously derided Freud as "the Viennese witch-doctor," "the Viennese Quack" and "Sigismond Lejoyeux". Nabokov also poked fun at the "voodooism" and psycho-babble language that was once actively promoted by psychoanalytic movement in America throughout the 1940s to 1970s."
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