Nabokov and Pynchon

An interesting fact not mentioned in the introduction.

Nabokov taught at Cornell. Pynchon attended Cornell. Pynchon took Nabokov's Masterpieces of European Fiction course. While Nabokov did not remember him, his wife Vera--who graded all the student essays (nice, eh, to have that old world sexist relationship with your spouse) did remember Pynchon. "He had very neat and precise handwriting" was her comment (or words to that effect).