Alas, the Joyce video was part of Purdue’s VHS collection way back when I was finishing graduate work. I just got done with a Joyce unit and I actually forgot about this particular upload. I’ll have to check it out again, especially as it will mean more now having been to Dublin. Nearly Bloomsday! Cheers!

@@svsugvcarter it's an awesome documentary and I've been looking for it ever since. If you find the VHS tape please upload it in it's entirety. I know back in 2007 YT had constraints on videos. Thanks again.

Almost out of juice on my phone by this point.

Ya, I was just learning to sing and play at the same time. It’s not pretty. It has gotten somewhat better now that I’m in a band with a drummer. It ain’t easy to get started on music in your early 40’s.

Ya, the take before he did, but I blew the lyrics. This is only other take I recorded. It’s just the first day together on it. Probably shouldn’t have made it public, but it took quite a bit just to get the rhythm to this point.

@@svsugvcarter whatever helps you get better. We’re terrible at most songs, but we keep on trying

Jack and Neal imitated Fields all the time. I was trying to convey the rhythm of his jokes in relation to their mutual patter. I explain this more in a work that eventually emerged out of this video, if you're interested. textshopexperiments.org/textshop07/muchoftenfardeeply

I’m sorry for your loss. It’s a wonderful memory.

The video comes from a VHS tape from Purdue University. I don't have any details about it. One summer afternoon, shortly before I graduated, I went through and posted clips from various tapes connected to thinkers from my dissertation. KZbin had only just appeared and I thought it would be interesting to put scholarly content online. Alas, I didn't keep a detailed record of what I put up. Perhaps the Purdue database might still point to information about this interview. I have one with the same interviewer with Cixous.

@@svsugvcarter what was your masters or phd in?

@@abepetersfiwajoluwa382 Rhetoric & composition

Can definitely hear Subterranean Homesick Blues

It was recorded from television on VHS in the early eighties. It's not a high fidelity recording. It looks like you can stream it now on Paramount Plus.

@@svsugvcarter I meant why is this film so hard to find? I saw it's streaming on Paramount +. We have the streaming app and but it's not there. I see it's on KZbin on Paramount + but I'm not sure how to actually sign in to watch it.

"""Nabokov’s father was killed right before he graduated university. V.D. Nabokov was embroiled in the oft-violent politics of the times, as a defender of Jewish rights and staunch opponent to the death penalty. In March 1922, at a conference in Berlin, two extreme rightists tried to assassinate the liberal politician and publisher Pavel Milyukov. V.D. Nabokov leapt to disarm the first gunman, Peter Shabelsky-Bork, and the second gunman, Sergey Taboritsky, shot and killed V.D. on the spot. Accidental death would be a resurfacing theme throughout much of Nabokov’s fiction, indicating the lasting impact that this trauma had on his life."""