Word: nabokov
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...adolescent, both pleasing and easy to please. His love of verbal play is so intense it seems like a bright boy's first passion at discovering the worlds in words - the alternate, funhouse universes that language could create. Sometimes that ardor lasts a lifetime; it did for Joyce and Nabokov. Not that Idle is at their rarefied level, but his word-joy was from the beginning, and remains, infectious...
...really is a lovely book," he says in Nabokov's defense...
...Lives Ruined by Literature” has an interesting reading list (everything from Dante to Cervantes to Nabokov) and a great professor (Judith Ryan). But you’ll have to plan ahead if this is the course you’re after: it isn’t being offered again until the spring...
...Eliot again. Another time, Vladimir Nabokov came for a meal...
...When Humbert Humbert sadly apostrophized his absent inamorata by crying, "Oh my Lolita, I have only words to play with!", he was selling words short. Vladimir Nabokov, the verboleptic who dreamed up Humbert, surely knew this, as do his readers: Lolita is the wordplay lover's favorite novel. Numbers have their power; they can be squared, cubed, extended to infinity. But they can't match the universe of ideas and feelings that come into being when letters collide. Words create worlds...