EFTA Document EFTA01906914

To: Ed From: Jeffrey Epstein Sent Sun 1/20/2013 2:54:13 PM Subject Re: Happy Birthday Thanks On Sunday, January 20, 2013, Ed wrote: Hi Jeff Happy Birthday. Also thanks for the coffee (Jennifer is a superb brewer). In looking back at my class notes, you may be interested in Nabokov's first-day of instructions to the students in Lit 311 on Monday, September 14, 1953, the first day of his day of teaching at Cornell. It was also my first lecture course. After telling us to take (and stay in) numbered scats in the lecture hall (which had about 300 seats), and introducing Vera Nabokov. Who sat on a chair on stage facing him. as the course assistant, he said what we, readers, needed to read novels was 1)a good memory 2)artistic feelings, and 3) a good dictionary. He then said it was a fatal mistake, though a current trend in academia, to search for historical or social meaning because a great novel is a pure invention by the author, and like nature, a deception. He also warned against identifying with any of the characters/ Instead, he said we should be looking for "a tingling in the spine." The author were enchanters, and created their effects by orchestrating details that evoked pictures in our head. PS. I don't think I ever got through The Gift, though, fdollowing his instructions, I bathed myself in the details Best regards Ed Epstein The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of Jeffrey Epstein Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jtevacatioila innail.com and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved EFTA_R1_00340499 EFTA01906914