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| - | Today is the 50th birthday of the first American over-the-counter publication of Nabokov's ''[[Lolita]]''. When Nabokov’s “[[dirty book]]” hit the streets of the USA., it sold 100,000 copies in three weeks, an immediate success that would allow the 60-year-old scholar and novelist the freedom to resign from teaching. | + | '''Wurzelstock''' is German for [[rootstock]]. |
| - | Pretty much everything about that book has been said, but I think many of you have not seen this interview conducted by [[Pierre Berton]] and [[Lionel Trilling]] for [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] now at YouTube[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldpj_5JNFoA][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-wcB4RPasE&]. | + | Der '''Wurzelstock''': |
| + | * Forstsprache: | ||
| + | ** Übergangsbereich von [[Wurzel (Pflanze)|Wurzel]]werk <!-- [[Wurzelwerk]] ist BKL --> und Stamm | ||
| + | ** [[Baumstumpf]], der nach dem Fällen verbliebene Teil des Baumes | ||
| + | * Gartenbau: Das [[Wurzel (Pflanze)|Wurzel]]system <!--[[Wurzelsystem]] ist Mathematik --> | ||
| + | * Pharmazie: ''[[Rhizom|Rhizoma]]'', ein unterirdisches Sprossachsensystem als Heilpflanze | ||
| - | The interview was filmed on [[November 26]], 1958 at [[The Rockefeller Center]] studios in [[New York City]]. It was Nabokov's first television interview. The subject was ''Lolita'', covering some of the questions addressed in [[On a Book Entitled Lolita|Nabokov's 1958 afterword]]. Most answers were read from index cards. | ||
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| - | [[Pierre Berton]]: | ||
| - | :"Let´s get out the more specific point: Why did you choose this rather odd, and, something that has never been done before, this curious and debased love?" | ||
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| - | Nabokov: | ||
| - | :"Well, on the whole, it flooded me all kinds of interesting possibilities I am not so much interested in the philosophy of the book, as I am in weaving the thing in a certain way, in those intergradation and interweavings of certain themes and subthemes, for instance the systematic line of Mr. Quilty, whom Humbert will kill, does kill ..." | ||
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| - | The Lolita or nymphet trope has since entered [[popular consciousness]] and never left it. Most recently British [[art critic]] [[James Putnam]] curated "[[Viva Lolita]]" which featured work from Turkish artist [[Nazif Topçuoğlu]] | ||
| - | [http://ponyxpress.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/07.jpg]. Here[http://www.flickr.com/photos/wurzelforum/tags/naziftopcuoglu/] are three of Topçuoğlu's photos at [[Wurzelstock]]. | ||
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| - | Aged 91, [[American music|American]] [[Music journalism|music journalist]] turned [[music producer]] [[Jerry Wexler]] died last Friday. While at ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard magazine]]'' in [[1947]] Wexler coined the term "[[Rhythm and Blues]]" to replace the tainted term "[[race music]]." He is one of the major [[record industry]] players to have marketed 1960s [[soul music]] to a white audience. | ||
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| - | He produced such hits as "[[Respect (song)|Respect]]"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkgQHcdlZU] and "[[Son of a Preacher Man]]"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJM5K51peVw], which are [[WMC]] #65 and 66. | ||
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Wurzelstock is German for rootstock.
Der Wurzelstock:
- Forstsprache:
- Übergangsbereich von Wurzelwerk und Stamm
- Baumstumpf, der nach dem Fällen verbliebene Teil des Baumes
- Gartenbau: Das Wurzelsystem
- Pharmazie: Rhizoma, ein unterirdisches Sprossachsensystem als Heilpflanze
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