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To: Borges
Lolita isn’t smut. Have you read it?

No. I have not read it nor do I plan to. I have also never read Hustler and other such trash. My preference is for books and other publications that uplift: The Holy Bible, The United States Constitution, Mere Christianity, Escape from Reason, Evangelism Explosion and the like.

VN was a good friend of William F Buckley.

So? Murray Kempton was also a friend of Mr. Buckley's.

117 posted on 05/02/2014 12:10:12 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: re_nortex

“My preference is for books and other publications that uplift: The Holy Bible, The United States Constitution, Mere Christianity, Escape from Reason, Evangelism Explosion and the like.”

Yikes,I’ll read anything,if it’s even just out of curiosity.

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118 posted on 05/02/2014 12:16:25 PM PDT by Mears
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To: re_nortex

Fiction is obviously regarded in a different way than the texts you listed. And it does uplift. It’s Americana written by a naturalized American citizen who loved America.


119 posted on 05/02/2014 12:17:40 PM PDT by Borges
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To: re_nortex

And Kempton and Buckley were ideological rivals. Buckley and Nabokov saw eye to eye politically.


120 posted on 05/02/2014 12:18:57 PM PDT by Borges
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