I mean, Nabokov's Pushkin translation is eccentric and open to criticism, but if I had Wilson's functional Russian I'd keep quiet about it.
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After criticizing Nabokov's Russian, Edmund Wilson gave make-up advice to Marilyn Monroe & challenged Muhammad Ali to 15 rounds in the ring
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@HeerJeet It’s dude thing. -
@AnakanaSchofiel Yes, very much a dude thing. Wilson was a real mansplainer (sometimes to the good, often not). - Show replies
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@HeerJeet on the other hand, sometimes Nabokov just said crazy shit for the hell of it -
@ZackBergerMDPhD True, but I think you have to have better Russian than Wilson did to challenge VN on meaning of Russian words.
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@JamesEPowell27 Yeah, he and Wilson had a big back and forth about the meaning of specific Russian words.
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@rortybomb I'm sympathetic to Wilson's critique of the Cold War but not really the tax stuff, which was peevishThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rortybomb Wilson became increasingly cranky in old age (as happens!). Patriotic Gore has a neo-confederate tinge. -
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