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Nabokovia
Links to Nabokov related sites of interest, from large hubs and academic journals to posts on minutiae.
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nabokov-L PF Maud | A note on the uncomfortable lines around 162. | :PF: | |
| PF: A gum-logged Aunt | More disturbing resonances around the Aunt Maud theme from Nabokov-L mailing lists. | :PF: | |
| Ada Online | Brian Boyd's extensive and ongoing annotations to Ada. | :Ada: | |
| The Art of Translation - VN | :Nabokov: | ||
| Pale Fire Hypertext Archive | :Nabokov:PF: | ||
| Boyd - Lolita: What We Know and What We Don't | :Nabokov:Lolita: | ||
| The Nabokovian | :Nabokov: | ||
| Genius and Plausibility | :Nabokov:PF: | ||
| Who Was Edmund Wilson? | :Nabokov: | ||
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | :Nabokov:IB: | ||
| DeMoss - Sebastian Knight and the Critics | :Nabokov:RLSK: | ||
| Barabtarlo - The Man is the Book | :Nabokov:RLSK: | ||
| Connolly - The Challenge of Interpreting and Decoding Nabokov | :Nabokov:RLSK: | ||
| Long interview with Dmitri | :Nabokov: | ||
| Wings (Kuzmin) | :Nabokov: | ||
| Gleb Struve - Letter to the Editor | :Nabokov: | ||
| Galkovsky - Dostoyevsky and Nabokov | :Nabokov: | ||
| Dickens Society - DDN | :Nabokov: | ||
| DBJ-DVN mailing list beef 1/2 | :Nabokov: | ||
| DBJ-DVN mailing list beef 2/2 | :Nabokov: | ||
| The Defense's title | "The [Luzhin] Defense" was created for a film tie-in. | :Defense: | |
| Roth: DVN on PF Authorship | A brief history of DVN's hazy recollections. | :PF: | |
| Moody: Ardis remembered | Suddenly, 100+ copy orders from '“Companies” with such murky names as “International Literary Associates”'! | :Ardis: | |
| Sebastian Knight and the Critics | :TRLSK: | ||
| Dorothy Parker's Lolita | A drunk Edmund Wilson spills the beans on VN's work. | :Lo: | |
| Lolita Riddle archived website | :Lo: | ||
| Lolita Riddle 2010 Documentary | Another memoryholed website. | :Lo: | |
| Владимир Набоков | Russian site containing the full text of many Russian works and translations. | :Nabokov: | |
| Владимир Набоков: Шекспир | :Nabokov:Shakespeare: | ||
| Nabokov's Great Gay Comic Novel | :PF: | ||
| Zimmer - Lichberg myth | Zimmer argues that Nabokov couldn't have known about the 1916 Lichberg story "Lolita" because, according to serial liar Nabokov, he did not read any German works or know German. | :Lo: | |
| 1911 Kadet caricatures | Including VDN and Milyukov | ||
| Sonia Slonim | |||
| Luzhin through the eyes of a chess player | A chess player deduces that Nabokov's chess persona is mostly airs. | :TheDefense: | |
| Nabokov Wisconsin studies interview 1967 | |||
| Nabokov and Katharine White |
Links
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Pop Mafia | :music: | How the Swedes ran (run) the music scene. | |
| Ken Fritz's $1M Stereo [WaPo] | :Articles: | ||
| Morgan: Nabokov on Freudian Slips | :Nabokov: | ||
| Dieter Zimmer notes on PF | :Nabokov: | ||
| Gameboy Flash Cartridge Power Comparison | :gameboy: | ||
| Pierre François Lacenaire [Crime and Punishment] | :French: | ||
| Cold War Mosely | :history: | ||
| A nice intro to recognizing verse/prose in Shakespeare | :Shakespeare: | ||
| Dolinin - Parody in Despair | :Nabokov: | ||
| Tupac Isn't dead!! | :GeoCities: | ||
| NNT: theology and ideology | :phil: | ||
| https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94734/why-early-america-was-obsessed-wooden-nutmegs | :history: | ||
| Generate ASCII characters | :old-net: | ||
| Miller - Before Air Conditioning | :literature: | ||
| Symbolism of the Pelican | :phil: | ||
| Fascination | :phil: | ||
| The Vatican's Latinist | :phil: | ||
| Bulgarian and Macedonian | :language: | ||
| Ancient stone weights | :history: | ||
| American Green - Plain Green Lawns | :structure: | ||
| Venery is dumb | |||
| Pamuk - Death of the Painter | :Pamuk: | Nabokov has his own section. | |
| Wonder Book - Movies | The people who design the sterile bookshelves in the movies. | ||
| NY: Moncrieff and Proust | :Proust: | A prime example of cargo cult translation and apologetics. "Hurr durr it's actually better in English!" - Conrad | |
| Huysmans dot Org | :Huysmans: | A site begun as a research resource by a prolific translator of J.K. Ha-Huysmans. | |
| Gunduz Bey and His Sons | :Pamuk: | A rare chance to hear direcrly from Orhan's father, written around the time of The Black Book. | |
| Searching for Friends in the Metaverse | :VR: | An excellent article about emaciated interactions in internet 3.0. | |
| Dolan's top 10 no-talent 20th-c. writers | C.S. Lewis! | ||
| Turkish Alphabet pronunciation | :Pamuk: | I read a whole novel pronouncing everything wrong, and I regret it. | |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets Online | :Shakespeare: | A great website with full annotated editions of these shitty sonnets. | |
| Elder Edda - Voluspa | :Tolkien: | The names of nearly every dwarf in The Hobbit were lifted directly from the first few pages of the Elder Edda. | |
| Elena Ferrante Ghostwriter Analysis | One of the most translated Italian female authors turns out to be a man's pseudonym. | ||
| Delbanco - Melville Biography | :Melville: | A biography of Melville by someone who is NOT Hershel Parker. | |
| Harrison Hayford, Melville editor | :Melville: | Melville studies don, and Parker's advisor. The second generation Raymond Weaver. | |
| Bootstrap Website Template | :web: | A silly site making fun of the modern web's terrible design. | |
| Dolan - Heartbreaking Work Review | For a few years I conflated this review with his annihilation of "A Million Little Pieces". Although they're the same in the end. | ||
| Gnosticism and BM | :BM: | ||
| Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse | :McCarthy: | Unsurprisingly, the reclusive author turns out to have many interviews in the archive. | |
| Beowulf Sheehan's photos of Cormac | :McCarthy: | ||
| I Went Through Cormac McCarthy’s Trash | :McCarthy: | ||
| Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy | :McCarthy: | Another interview about The Road. | |
| iPod Video SSD Mod | :music: | ||
| RBY Mew distribution ROM | |||
| Charles Wirgman | He invented anime. | ||
| Interview with Anne DeLisle | Cormac's second wife | :McCarthy: | |
| Life and Death of Stefan Zweig | |||
| The Big Five US Trade Book Publishers | Wow, so many diverse publishers! | ||
| САМУИЛ ЯКОВЛЕВИЧ МАРШАК | |||
| Fish in Ancient Egypt | :antiquity: | ||
| 50 Years of Beautiful Books | Godine Press | ||
| MousePrint | Hunting shrinkflation. | ||
| Valve - Flat Organization | |||
| The four humours | :antiquity: | ||
| Orwell: ”You wouldn’t have the guts” | This letter doesn't tend to make it into anthologies. | ||
| Impurities in Damascus Steel |
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early 2Ks anime geocities | |||
| Tolkien estate wins lawsuits against fanfics | :Tolkien: | ||
| Tolkien's myth born in the trenches | An excellent point is made that the Dunharrow men of the film did not evoke the dead of WW1. | :Tolkien: | |
| Judge rules in BYOB case | :SOAD: | ||
| May 13 2011 SOAD setlist | :SOAD: | ||
| SOAD collapse fan theory | I have nothing to add and don't consider it a "theory". | :SOAD: | |
| Steely Dan lyrics page | |||
| Samizdat Archive | |||
| The Frasier Files | Geocities site with a little bit too much information on Frasier. | ||
| "Isle of the Cross" not convincing | I'm sure Parker invented this. | :Melville: | |
| Real vs Fake Pyrex | tl;dr - "Pyrex" is the company, "pyrex" might explode, "PYREX" is the real deal. | ||
| water.css | CSS styles for quick, nice websites. |
USA
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Boyd - OODA loop | :military:US: | ||
| US Army Ranks | :military: | ||
| Caro - My Search for Coke Stevenson | :US: |
Lit
Antiquity
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hesiod Complete | :lit:classics: | ||
| Perseus Digital Library | :lit:classics: | ||
| Greek and Roman Authors | :lit:classics: | ||
| Pleiades Map of Ancient World | :lit:classics: | ||
| Editio Princeps | :classics: | ||
| Yale - Intro to Ancient Greek History | :classics: |
Worldwide
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baudelaire - Convalescent Flaneur | :French: | ||
| Dmitri Galkovsky Livejournal | :Russian: | ||
| The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters | :Russia: | ||
| Doctor Zhivago Glows | :Russia: | ||
| Письма Достоевского | :Dostoyevsky: | ||
| Belinsky | :Russia: | ||
| Tolstoy on Shakespeare | :Shakespeare:Tolstoy: | ||
| Yuri Knozorov | :Russia: | ||
| LRB - Mirsky | :Russia: | ||
| The Skoptsy | :Russia: | ||
| Gogol's Preface to Dead Souls | :lit:Russian: |
Music
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Guitar Homepage | :guitar: | ||
| K-On! Discography | :K:On: | ||
| Adaptive Pitch Test | :sound: | ||
| Fuctory / Euro King Discography | "Euro Diva Jennifer." | :music: | |
| Euro Diva Jennifer Discography | :music: | ||
| Find a Song's Key From Its Chords | :music: | ||
| Live Nirvana Tour History | :Nirvana: | ||
| Date A Fender Guitar By Serial Number | :guitar: | ||
| Western Music Genre Map | :music: | ||
| System of a Down 2011.05.13 Setlist | :SOAD: | ||
| Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times | :music: | ||
| Shepard Tone - Endless Descent / Ascent Auditory Illusion | :sound: | ||
| Missing Fundamental | :sound: | ||
| Missing Fundamentals - Periodicity and Pitch | :sound: | ||
| How a Guitar Maker Started Rocking Back in the U.S.S.R. | :guitar: | ||
| RockBox projects | :music: | ||
| Soundgarden - 1994 interview | :music: |
Japan
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| うける Explanation | :Japanese: | ||
| Ox40 Visualizer | :music:anime: | ||
| Xorberax Visualizer | :music:anime: | ||
| Hiroyuki Vocaloid DB | :vocaloid: | ||
| Nyanpasu | :anime: | ||
| In Ghostly Japan | :Japan: |
iDOLM@STER
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cinderella Girls Card Database (gamedbs) | :imas: | ||
| Million Live! GREE Database | :imas: | ||
| iDOLM@STER MAD World Service Archive | :imas: | ||
| iM@S Wiki | RIP old imas wiki | :imas: | |
| iM@S 2 Hyper Mode Guide | :imas: | ||
| iM@S 1 Cabinet Flash Demo {Dead} | :imas: | ||
| Million Live! Theater Days Card Database | :imas: | ||
| iM@S 2 Guide Translation | :imas: | ||
| 2013 imas blog | :imas: | ||
| Binding Theater Days | :imas: | ||
| CGSS - Autocombo team builder |
Game
Website Inspo
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Rees Famous Ancient Website | :fun: | ||
| Jodi Site - Awesome Schizo Site | :fun: | ||
| Another Schizo Site | :fun: | ||
| Make Frontend Shit Again Party | :fun: | ||
| Wlog Clean Blog Layout | :fun: | ||
| Cameron's World Geocities Celebration | :fun: | ||
| Geocities GIF Scraper | :fun: | ||
| Geocities GIF Search Engine | :fun: | ||
| Better Website Simple CSS Philosophy | :fun: | ||
| Tokyo Geocities index | :GeoCities: | ||
| Old internet buttons | :GeoCities: | ||
| Obscuro website | :GeoCities: | ||
| Japanese game guide with clean layout | :website: | ||
| Peelo Paalu Link Directory | :fun: | ||
| KOLEOSIS THE DISEASED |
GeoCities
201X Link Archive
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HACKER $AMMi | :fun: | ||
| Shark Clicker | :game: | ||
| coalgirls | :anime: |
200X Link Archive
| Link | Notes | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob and George | :game: | ||
| Homestar Runner | :fun: | ||
| Nuklear Power | :game: | ||
| MMPU Master Level List | :game: | ||
| GEWar Users | :game: | ||
| JSPaint In Browser | :fun: | ||
| Falling, Falling (Shepard Tone Demo) | :sound:fun: | ||
| Yeah Lemons | :fun: | ||
| The Finger | :fun: | ||
| Bury Me With My Money | :fun: | ||
| Eel Slap | :fun: | ||
| Koalas to the Max | :fun: | ||
| Staggering Beauty (Epilepsy) | :fun: | ||
| Inception Button | :fun: | ||
| Craigslist - My Little Nazi Dolls | :fun: | ||
| Matrix Digital Rain | :fun: | ||
| Ninja Flex | :fun: | ||
| Pointer Pointer | :fun: | ||
| Pixels Fighting | :physics:fun: | ||
| Serebii Homepage | :game:Pokemon: | ||
| Dooku Dot Net | :fun: |