{"id":260766,"date":"2008-03-05T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/03\/05\/the-original-of-laura\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:23","slug":"the-original-of-laura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/03\/05\/the-original-of-laura\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original of Laura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More on Nabokov&#8217;s last and maybe-about-to-be-destroyed novel\/novel-fragment, <em>The Original of Laura<\/em>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2185222\/pagenum\/all\/\">Slate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But the essence is this: Dmitri says he reached a decision after an imagined ghostly conversation with his dead father\u2014one in a far different key from Hamlet&#8217;s talk with his dead dad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I have decided,&#8221; Koval quoted Dmitri, &#8220;that my father, with a wry and fond smile, might well have contradicted himself upon seeing me in my present situation and said, &#8220;Well, why don&#8217;t you mix the useful with the pleasurable? That is, say or do what you like but why not make some money on the damn thing?&#8217; &#8220; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on Nabokov&#8217;s last and maybe-about-to-be-destroyed novel\/novel-fragment, The Original of Laura, from Slate: But the essence is this: Dmitri says he reached a decision after an imagined ghostly conversation with his dead father\u2014one in a far different key from Hamlet&#8217;s talk with his dead dad. &#8220;I have decided,&#8221; Koval quoted Dmitri, &#8220;that my father, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,10616,2006],"class_list":["post-260766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-slate","tag-vladimir-nabokov"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359086,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260766\/revisions\/359086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}