Epstein Secrets

e with the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegan's Wake -- nothing. What Joyce had that Nabokov lacked was the intimacy of his native language. Conrad lacked that intimacy, too, but =he was an completely different kind of writer, closer to Naipaul in his =method than to either Joyce or Nabokov, and

say this as someone who loves and cherishes Lolita. There is nothing in all of world literature to compare with the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegan's Wake -- nothing. What Joyce had that Nabokov lacked was the intimacy of his native language. Conrad lacked that intimacy, too, but =he was an comp

e with the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegan's Wake -- nothing. What Joyce had that Nabokov lacked was the intimacy of his native language. Conrad lacked that intimacy, too, but =he was an completely different kind of writer, closer to Naipaul in his =method than to either Joyce or Nabokov, and

ay this as someone who loves and cherishes Lolita. There is nothing in all of world literature to compare with the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegan's Wake -- nothing. What Joyce had that Nabokov lacked was the intimacy of his native language. Conrad lacked that intimacy, too, but =he was an comp

re with the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegan's Wake -- nothing. What Joyce had that Nabokov lacked was the intimacy of his native language. Conrad lacked that intimacy, too, but =he was an completely different kind of writer, closer to Naipaul in his =method than to either Joyce or Nabokov, an

ay this as someone who loves and cherishes Lolita. There is nothing in all of world literature to compare with the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegan's Wake -- nothing. What Joyce had that Nabokov lacked was the intimacy of his native language. Conrad lacked that intimacy, too, but =he was an comp