{"efta_number": "EFTA01906665", "page_count": 1, "url": "https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01906665", "pdf_url": "https://epstein-data.com/pdf/EFTA01906665.pdf", "pages": [{"efta_number": "EFTA01906665", "page_number": 0, "text_content": "To: \nFnxn: \nSent: \nSubject: \nEpstein, Jeftljeevacation@gmail.com] \nEd \nSun 1/20/2013 2:42:36 PM \nHappy Birthday \nHi Jeff \nHappy Birthday. Also thanks for the \nlooking back at my class notes, you may \ninstructions to the students in Lit 311 \nday of his day of teaching at Cornell. \nAfter telling us to take (and stay in) \nhad about 300 seats), and introducing \nfacing him. as the course assistant, he sal \nat we, readers, needed to read \nnovels was 1)a good memory 2)artistic feelings, and 3) a good dictionary. He \nthen said it was a fatal mistake, though a current trend in academia, to search \nfor historical or social meaning because a great novel is a pure invention by the \nauthor, and like nature, a deception. He also warned against identifying with \nany of the characters/ Instead, he said we should be looking for a tingling in \nthe spine. \nThe author were enchanters, and created their effects by \norchestrating details that evoked pictures in our head. \nPS. I don't think I ever got through The Gift, though, fdollowing his \ninstructions, I bathed myself in the details \nBest regards \nEd Epstein \nwww.edwardjayepstein.com \ncoffee (Jennifer is a superb brewer). In \nbe interested in Nabokov s first-day of \non Monday, September 14, 1953, the first \nIt was also my first lecture course. \nis in the lecture hall (which \nWho sat on a chair on stage \nEFTA_R1_00340055 \nEFTA01906665\n", "char_count": 1388}]}