{"id":12318,"date":"2007-12-08T19:57:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T00:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2014-01-08T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T22:37:50","slug":"vladimir-nabokovs-drawbridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/08\/vladimir-nabokovs-drawbridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Nabokov&#8217;s drawbridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the passage I shared earlier this week from one of Vladimir Nabokov&#8217;s letters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2007\/12\/04\/giving-nabokov-a-hand\/\">in which he dissed poets who are less than serious about their art<\/a>, here&#8217;s another quote  that I copied out long ago.  <\/p>\n<p>His target in this letter? <i>Editors!<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It is the principle of editing itself which distresses me. <\/p>\n<p>I shall be very grateful to you if you help me to weed out bad grammar, but I do not think I would like my longish sentences clipped too close, or have those drawbridges lowered which I have taken such pains to lift. In other words, I would like to discriminate between awkward construction (which is bad) and a certain special&#151;how shall I put it&#151;sinuosity, which is my own and which only at first glance may seem awkward or obscure. Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won&#8217;t hurt him. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear it for sinuosity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the passage I shared earlier this week from one of Vladimir Nabokov&#8217;s letters in which he dissed poets who are less than serious about their art, here&#8217;s another quote that I copied out long ago. His target in this letter? Editors! It is the principle of editing itself which distresses me. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[367],"class_list":["post-12318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vladimir-nabokov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12319,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions\/12319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}