tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post2542700947174440948..comments2023-11-05T05:01:58.563-05:00Comments on Ward Six: Nabokov prognosticates Sarah Palin!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-32100982992392681172009-10-24T10:16:08.743-05:002009-10-24T10:16:08.743-05:00she's an american archetypeshe's an american archetypejonhttp://lastbender.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-15822041047921176162009-10-23T21:06:54.504-05:002009-10-23T21:06:54.504-05:00Great quotes. Another literary prognostication of ...Great quotes. Another literary prognostication of Sarah Palin, in male form, is Buzz Windrip in Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here. Trope for trope, it's her.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12072767949948418052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-43165736774924347092009-10-23T08:44:47.451-05:002009-10-23T08:44:47.451-05:00Sarah Pale-in FireSarah Pale-in FirePeter Baboon Rawlingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483205185159495277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-54099849924987403262009-10-23T07:58:05.473-05:002009-10-23T07:58:05.473-05:00Ada is set in an imaginary country that is a confl...Ada is set in an imaginary country that is a conflation of Russia and the US and I think is explicitly located in a temperate Alaska. Nabokov was like Joyce I think, with Russia instead of Ireland as locus. Alaska is the liminal zone between the two opposites of Russia and America. He of course also knew petty fascist thinking when he saw it, as well as bizarre, self-serving fantasies...jonhttp://lastbender.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-48758322095732923132009-10-22T17:44:28.029-05:002009-10-22T17:44:28.029-05:00Heck, I wouldn't mind seeing that!
I loved th...Heck, I wouldn't mind seeing that!<br /><br />I loved the way Nabokov devoured American popular culture...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-16197538190416243802009-10-22T15:54:55.309-05:002009-10-22T15:54:55.309-05:00Apparently there were stories about this in newspa...Apparently there were stories about this in newspapers back in the 1950s, and quite possibly Nabokov had seen them. If you like I can send you a pdf or jpeg of the Kansas City Star, 1958, with a story headlined, "Reds Use 'Copters to Hunt Wolves."Jay Livingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.com