Nabokov in a fight because of his large beard and faintly homosexual tendencies.
and...
Nabokov as a writer because of his extra-long extra-descriptive sentence writing capabilities.
(His memoir was a BITCH.)
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Anonymous2006-07-09 23:33
I don't know Nabakov except from the Peter Sellers movie, but Lovecraft was a for-real creep. He would sleep out in cemeteries in order to get a chill and have nightmares, then go home and write them up. He used to hang out around all those creaky old wooden houses from the 1700's and he knew parts of New York that have never ever been written about before or since. His Antarctica obsession pretty much corresponds with Poe's North Pole Whirlpool obsession, simply because terra incognita is free game for writers and fantacists. But Lovecraft is like Castaneda and Wolfe in respect that you need to have a dictionary handy and vastly increase your vocabulary in order to get the full effect.
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Anonymous2006-07-14 23:46
I've read some books by Lovecraft.
I found his books cool and what I think - it'd be nice to watch some movies with borrowed plot. Just to spend 90 minutes of your life (yes I know it'll be sh#t because of shortness).
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i haven't had much problem with lovecraft, i really enjoy just about everything i've read by him and arthur machen. what really gives me a hard time is john milton!
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Anonymous2006-07-23 8:21
>>10
Nabokov can probably write ten pages on seducing and fucking your "cousin" and still make it sound like if he was describing butterflies and villas in a far off land.