WHAT THEY SAID: Nabokov on Freud; "I Think He's Crude. I think He's Medieval..And I Don't Want An Elderly Gentleman From Vienna With An Umbrella Inflicting His Dreams Upon Me."
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WHAT THEY SAID: Nabokov on Freud; "I Think He's Crude. I think He's Medieval..And I Don't Want An Elderly Gentleman From Vienna With An Umbrella Inflicting His Dreams Upon Me."
This is part of a series I’m developing that aims to counter-act the cultural, spiritual, literary, and biological genocide of the Woke/Covid epoch. I believe that language is at the battlefront of the erasure.
“An elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me”
That is so Nabokov 😂
Unrelated, but it made me think of a passage about Pasternak from “Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago” (I think it was that one; I also listened to another audiobook about Pasternak/Olga/Lara/Zhivago around the same time but can’t recall the title). After the Union of Soviet Writers kicked Pasternak out for thought crimes, two of his students visited him, asking him what they should do (i.e., whether or not they should risk their careers, reputations, and lives by standing up for him). He absolved them of the need to stand up for him, and he remembers looking out the window when they left and seeing them cheerfully skipping away.
That image has always stayed with me as an example of cowardice cracking through the facade of courage paired with a profound insensitivity to the persecution Pasternak was enduring.
Celia, I'm wondering what you're trying to tell us with this about Vladimir Nabokov, who is most well known for his world famous novel "Lolita", about an old man lusting after a young girl. Didn't that contribute to fueling the rampant pedophile craze? What would Dr. Judith Reisman say about him? He's also seen here as an uber privileged rich guy living on a lake in Switzerland who has a dutiful wife to do his typing, oh and he has a way with words. Please clarify where you're going with this! Thank you.