Anonymous (not verified) says:

Legend has it that Vergil pleaded with his secretary to burn the unfinished Aeneid. Where would we be without the Aeneid?
Would not Nabokov's wife be in the best place to destroy the manuscript? If she chose not to do it why should anyone else destroy it?

January 25, 2008 11:21 PM
 

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