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To: Janice Shell who wrote (6403)	1/20/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Janice, So what did he write? Why do you like him? Is it in English? Am I showing my literary ignorance here or what?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (6403)	1/20/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Janice, >>If we're talking novelists, as a stylist Vladimir Nabokov. Agree about Vladimir Nabokov. His Ada had some hauntingly beautiful prose. Amazing that he didn't begin writing in English until middle age. I love the way he makes puns interrelated in several languages. One of his books starts off with an interesting statement: "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a flash of light between two eternities of darkness." (Quote may not be exact.) Joseph Conrad was another one whose native language was not English, if I am not mistaken. Jack