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with tenderness" at the first opportunity, although he is "indolent" and "sluggish," and the acquisition of three new suits from england. meanwhile he is "rereading rimbaud, his marvelous verse and his pathetic correspondence . . . . i am also dipping into a collection of unbelievably stupid soviet jokes
about rupert brooke, written in an easefully fluid style rather than an unconvincing one. there are also countless reviews, chiefly from the new republic, where his friend edmund wilson, then its editor, favored him. about now forgotten writers, these reviews can, though much smarter than the soviet jokes...
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/1/chasing-nabokov