tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19303578.post939881960430841364..comments2023-07-27T03:13:29.767-05:00Comments on Bibliolatry: What would you do?Bibliolatristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17952275703674340536noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19303578.post-24679546274254411902008-01-26T10:05:00.000-05:002008-01-26T10:05:00.000-05:00Think of what we have lost because siblings and ch...Think of what we have lost because siblings and children have followed these crazy last requests.<BR/><BR/>A diary and a novel by Emily Bronte comes to mind, and all that has done is swirled rumors about both ever since.<BR/><BR/>Nabokov is an great and important writer. Publish!<BR/>-ChironAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19303578.post-24349369432718851072008-01-24T22:23:00.000-05:002008-01-24T22:23:00.000-05:00I'd publish it. I know writers never think their ...I'd publish it. I know writers never think their own stuff is good.Jennifer McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613714863799177911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19303578.post-87697666008081125002008-01-24T10:18:00.000-05:002008-01-24T10:18:00.000-05:00Even if he ordered me to, I'd have trouble burning...Even if he ordered me to, I'd have trouble burning any writing my father left behind, and my father wasn't a writer. If Nabokov wanted his ms burned, he should've done it himself. Didn't Emily Dickinson make the same request of her family?Bybeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19303578.post-54404523916002647232008-01-23T12:39:00.000-05:002008-01-23T12:39:00.000-05:00As a manager of a bookstore my opinion is slanted ...As a manager of a bookstore my opinion is slanted by the fact that I would sell the crap out of the book... so i say publish it :-)JRH456https://www.blogger.com/profile/14006027202254165986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19303578.post-7451527213542151692008-01-23T12:14:00.000-05:002008-01-23T12:14:00.000-05:00An interesting dilemma to be sure. I read the arti...An interesting dilemma to be sure. I read the article you linked to but that is all the info I know about it. With just that much I would lean towards not destroying the manuscript because if Nabokov really did not want it published, he would have done it himself. Burned it that is.<BR/>We don't know the relationship the two had and I personally don't think it is fair to ask your own child, whatever his age, to do such a thing. His son should make up his mind and not feel conflicted either way.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15984305420691237277noreply@blogger.com