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Apogee MiC Digital Microphone
Apogee MiC Digital Microphone
Product Information
Studio quality anywhere
About the size of an iPhone, MiC makes it easy to capture your best take with incredible quality, anywhere your music takes you. Record any sound you can imagine, from vocals to vibraphones, pianos to percussion and everything in between, and build a track right on your iPad with GarageBand.
Three products in one small package
MiC integrates a microphone, microphone preamp, and an A/D converter into one compact device. Each part of MiC is designed to deliver the lowest noise and highest quality signal possible for a digital microphone. And it all fits in your pocket.
Built for the future
Introduced in 2011, the original MiC became the mobile microphone of choice for artists desiring that big-studio microphone sound. The latest MiC delivers unsurpassed recording quality. It's optimized for the newest iOS devices, allowing you to record in pristine fidelity—up to 24-bit/96 kHz.
About Apogee
Since 1985, Apogee has continually produced award-winning technology that powers many of the world's most respected studios. Apogee products have been instrumental in capturing countless GRAMMY® and OSCAR® winning performances.
- PureDIGITAL connection delivers pristine sound quality
- Designed for vocal, spoken word, and acoustic instrument recording
- Up to 96 kHz/24-bit HD recording
- Works with iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac
- Lightning and Mac USB cables included
- Easy to use, no setup required
- Gain knob and level indicator make setting level a snap
- Made for GarageBand and Logic Pro
- Low-noise digital connection with high-gain, studio-quality preamp
- Made in the U.S.A.
Did you notice?Three products in one, MiC combines a microphone, a mic preamp, and a digital converter—everything you need to record.
Apple Recommends ForAnyone who wants a high-quality condenser microphone with incredible sound and total portability for recording on iPad, iPhone, or Mac.
What's in the Box?
- Apogee MiC digital microphone
- Lightning cable for connection to iOS devices (3.3 ft./1 m)
- USB cable for connection to Mac (3.3 ft./1 m)
- Desktop tripod
- Microphone stand adapter
- QuickStart guide
Tech Specs
- Height: 4.56 in./11.58 cm
- Width: 1.52 in./3.86 cm
- Weight: 6.4 oz./181.4 g
System Requirements
- Mac OS X v10.7.5 or later or iOS 6.1 or later
- 1.5 GHz or faster Intel processor
- 2GB of RAM minimum; 4GB recommended
- For Mac: GarageBand, Logic Pro, MainStage, or any Core Audio compatible application. For iOS: Made for GarageBand on iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad. Works with other Core Audio compatible apps.
Manufacturer Information
Part Number
- Mfr. Part Number: MiC 96k-LO
- UPC or EAN No.: 805676301235
- Note: Products sold through this website that do not bear the Apple Brand name are serviced and supported exclusively by their manufacturers in accordance with terms and conditions packaged with the products. Apple's Limited Warranty does not apply to products that are not Apple-branded, even if packaged or sold with Apple products. Please contact the manufacturer directly for technical support and customer service.
- Warranty: One year
Featured App
GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play a piano, organ, guitar, and drums. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you've never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use a Touch Instrument, a built-in microphone, or a guitar and instantly record a performance with support for up of 32 tracks*. Record performances from third-party music and effect apps directly into GarageBand using Inter-App Audio in iOS 8. And share your song using email, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, or AirDrop for iOS.
Play your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch like a musical instrument
• Play musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard
• Tap out beats with acoustic and electronic drum kits
• Record your voice using the built-in microphone and apply fun sound effects
• Recreate legendary guitar rigs with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects
• Use the Sampler to create new instruments from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard
• Record compatible third-party music apps right into GarageBand using Inter-App Audio
Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments
• Conduct an entire string orchestra with just one finger using Smart Strings
• Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard
• Strum chords on an acoustic and electric Smart Guitar, trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords, or switch to Notes view to try your hand at the real thing
• Groove with a variety of Smart Basses using upright, electric, and synth sounds
• Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with Smart Drums
Start a Jam Session with your friends
• Use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to play or record live over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with up to three of your friends
• Tempo, key, time signature, and chords automatically sync to the bandleader
• Jam with any Touch Instrument or live instruments like electric guitar or voice
• The bandleader automatically collects everyone's recordings so they can be mixed as a song and shared
Create a song anywhere you go
• Arrange and mix your song with up to 32 tracks* using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops
• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording
• Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play
• Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track's volume —solo or mute any track or adjust pan, reverb, and echo
• Choose from over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing band to your song
Share your songs
• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud Drive
• Create custom ringtones and alerts for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch
• Share your songs directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Email songs right from GarageBand
• Export your song and add it to the iTunes library on your Mac or PC
• Share GarageBand projects directly between iOS devices using AirDrop for iOS
* 32 tracks available on iOS devices with the A7 chip or higher. 16 tracks available on iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPad (4th generation), iPad (3rd generation), iPad 2, iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation). …
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Ratings & Reviews
A superb, compact mic
This was my first microphone purchase, for use with a Mac Pro. Having a Yamaha USB receiver as my sound output device, I wanted a This was my first microphone purchase, for use with a Mac Pro. Having a Yamaha USB receiver as my sound output device, I wanted a USB mic of comparable quality for the sound input device. After evaluating a lot of choices, I settled on the Apogee, where their outstanding website and its thorough info and sound samples made it clear that these people are dead serious about high quality sound. It was also the case that I wanted a mic that looked great on my desktop, and not stick out like a bizarre thumb as some competing mics do. This is one of the best things I've ever bought, delivering high quality sound without taking up a lot of space. …
- Written by Richard S from Framingham
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In the right hands, this thing is GOLD.
As a songwriter, I do/have done a lot of demo-ing/recording on my mobile studio(GarageBand on a MacBook Pro) and the Mic has quick As a songwriter, I do/have done a lot of demo-ing/recording on my mobile studio(GarageBand on a MacBook Pro) and the Mic has quickly become one of the most used toys of mine. Works GREAT for vocals and, with knowledge of mic positioning, sounds as good as any mic I've ever heard for acoustic guitars. Definitely do not regret buying!!! …
- Written by Kevin C from Sherman Oaks
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Great Mic, nice sound, compact size.
I used the mic mostly with my iPad mini, but i connected it also to mac and Windows machine ( yes it works with windows, but Hi,
I used the mic mostly with my iPad mini, but i connected it also to mac and Windows machine ( yes it works with windows, but not as usual USB mic but you need to install ASIO4all free asio drivers and off course use recording application which is able to use asio drivers - all DAW windows software and some consumer audio editing soft like Audacity compiled with asio support... it is not perfect but works for me and some other people)
- Regarding the sound, this is really great.
- Build quality - all metal housing speaks for itself - actually it is pretty heavy for the size because of it...
- Regarding the cabling, all cables are short but... if you need longer cable and you are using mac then instead of buying dedicated expensive Apogee 3m cable you can use cheap USB extension cable.
What's more, if you need a longer connection to your iPad and -! if you already have an apple lightning to USB Camera Adapter !- then u can use a trick and instead of using apogee_to_lightning short cable ( or buying Apogee expensive extension) you can use (Apogee_to_USB)+(USB extension cable)+( Apple lightning to USB Camera Adapter) and it should work as I tried with my iPad mini this connection without the USB extension (Apogee_to_USB)+( Apple lightning to USB Camera Adapter) and it worked fine :) an extension cable of 3 meters should not cause the trouble in my opinion. …
- Written by Grzegorz G from Warszawa
44 of 47 people found this useful
I am working with the Apogee Duet and I have been able to travel around the world with this great technology. It is given me the o I am working with the Apogee Duet and I have been able to travel around the world with this great technology. It is given me the opportunity to record myself as an artist and working with clients in a home, studio and portable environment. Songwriting, demos, finished products all are possible. Each location you record requires knowledge of the acoustics in a room or place and then it is up to you as an artist or producer to adapt and apply the necessary adjustments to the recordings afterwards. …
- Written by Sheldon U from Mississauga
Very good quality and easy to start using
I have the mic since 1 month ago, and I use it to record myself playing. The product is very good quality and it is very easy to s I have the mic since 1 month ago, and I use it to record myself playing. The product is very good quality and it is very easy to start using. Plug and play! …
- Written by Lluc M from Castellterçol
Great Little ONE
We liked the ONE so much that my team now has two. I am an arts presenter and film maker delivering stage and screen productions a We liked the ONE so much that my team now has two. I am an arts presenter and film maker delivering stage and screen productions and we tour our work internationally. My ONE is used for live set gigs, recordings and many aspects of sound production, and it is brilliant. Highly portable, reliable and discreet. Thank you Apogee. …
- Written by Daniel B from DUNEDIN
Questions & Answers
Answers from the community
Is this compatible with the iPhone 5 using an Apple 30-pin adapter? If so, is there any degradation in the quality?
- Asked by Daniel R from Anchorage
- Sep 27, 2012
I do video announcements for our business. I use a 6 plus. How far can I be away from the mic for it to still pick up vocals?
- Asked by Berean A from Pleasant Hill
- Feb 25, 2015
Not more than10 ft
- Answered by Michelle L
- Mar 7, 2015
Is a longer cable available?
- Asked by Alan R from Merrill
- Feb 3, 2014
Yes, Apogee offers longer cables. You can also utilize a USB extension when recording to a Mac.
- Answered by Rob C from Santa Monica
- Mar 10, 2014
does the mic work with iphone 5s and ipad mini?
- Asked by Chloe I
- Sep 22, 2013
The latest version of MiC includes Lightning, 30-Pin and USB cables per the product description.
- Answered by Rob C from Nashville
- Nov 29, 2013
will one mic record both voice and guitar
- Asked by Brenda S from Evansville
- Dec 19, 2014
Yes, The MiC will pick up both vocals and guitar. There are many factors that come into play as to h Yes, The MiC will pick up both vocals and guitar. There are many factors that come into play as to how well the recording will turn out to be but I would say the two main factors are MiC positioning and gain level. As long as you have the gain and the mic leveled at a good midpoint and considering the quality of the MiC it will be no problem for it to pick up both vocals and guitar. …
- Answered by Michael C from Culver City
- Dec 22, 2014
does the apogee MiC connect to the Duet
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Platelets are slightly up too, which is encouraging as it supports the "normal variance" theory of why they fell in the first place. As we get more measurements over the next few weeks I suppose we'll know more on that, but I think this is quite positive (at least it makes us feel better).
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
You may have heard about the million-dollar lottery ticket that was sold in our little town a couple of weeks ago.
There hasnt been so much excitement here since Cooter Brown thought he saw Sasquatch in the woods behind the Cottageville Mall (aka the Dollar General. And it turned out to be one of our goats on his hind legs, eating camellia buds.)
On the big day, I was running past the BP convenience store and saw an employee putting up letters on the roadside sign: C-o-n-g-r-a-t-u-l-a When I loped by again, four miles later, the sign read: Congratulations to our million-dollar lottery winner! I was so shocked I almost boomeranged off the beer delivery truck.
My first guess was that Widdle had struck it rich. He buys a few tickets every week, here and there. I find them in his bathroom and on the desk in our office, or tucked into the visor of his truck. Its like a hobby and it costs less than golf, so who am I to complain?
I got all excited, until I realized I hadnt seen him in a day or two. I grew suspicious until I remembered he was off on one of his Florida fishing jaunts. A-twitter with anticipation, I called his cell.
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Me: Hey. Did you win the lottery?
Widdle, warily: Who wants to know?
Me: They had a million-dollar winner at the BP.
W: If it was me Id have disconnected my phone already. (Laughs uproariously.)
Me: Click. Dial tone.
I sat up half the night, sulking and thinking about that $1 million. Even though, as we all know, you dont actually get a million bucks. After taxes you get roughly $29.37. Still, free money is free money.
Sure enough, the next day a lady came forward to claim the prize. She requested anonymity, and who can blame her? Id go underground, too. She did say she bought the ticket when she stopped to buy some fried chicken for her husbands lunch, which may be the only occasion in history when fried food has been good for you.
The truth is, Ill never win the lottery, because to win you have to play. I dont play because, despite having a college degree, I cant figure the darn thing out. Quick-Pik or selected numbers? Megaplier? Mega Millions? S.C. Education Lottery? It all makes my eyes throb. Im not even savvy enough to figure out the scratch-off tickets, besides which Im too frugal to pay $10 for a chance to win $100,000.
When Widdle buys his three-dollar lottery tickets he occasionally brings home an extra and says, This is yours. Ha-ha-ha! If that turned out to be the big un, hed wrest it from my hands faster than you can say community property.
Like most of yall, I enjoy mentally spending a windfall. After the obligatory 10 percent to charity, Id buy some genuine Ray-Ban sunglasses, 10 pairs of Asics Gel-1160 running shoes, a cobblestone driveway (long story) and a house in Banner Elk, N.C. (you can take the gal out of North Carolina, but you know the rest.) Id also open a no-kill dog shelter and buy a cashew plantation because I eat bushels of them every week. I might even get my first-ever pedicure.
I wouldnt forget Widdle, either. Id buy him a fancy fishing rod and a live-bait shop in Florida. Thats love, friends. Thats love.
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You need none of that to attract more people. Most sandbox fans, and there are a ton who don't play DF, do not want those changes.
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- Multiple character slots (Why is your Sandbox game allowing free class changes on the fly?)
- Harsher penalty for being a murderer (You can still PvP at high levels without killing young players with no reason)
Those are just a few things. None of them will undermine the core of the game. It will just add more options for people who are less interested in PvP, which is a good thing. The only thing to remotely affect PvP is the removal of bunny hopping and such. But, if you are actually in favor of an exploit that is frowned upon in literally every multiplayer game ever made, then I guess I can't argue with you.
There, I gave examples. What do the supporters have to say?
Originally posted by afhn2110
It's just that most DF players have never actually played a good sandbox MMO. And I know that, that, in itself is the main problem. They didn't have the pleasure to see what a truly well made sandox actually is or how it plays. So they don't have the success to draw from. All they know is Dark and Light, Shadowbane, and even some only know Darkfall and Mortal Online.
For whatever reason, sandbox developers have gone from a fully fledged fantasy world that invites all playstyles, to a large arena fantasy FPS deathmatch. Yet they still call it a sandbox. I guess... Only us old timers can see where I'm coming from.
It's a shame. I feel so sorry for these new sandbox gamers.
Oh, and I'll likely be back in 24 hours or so, after my temporary ban has been lifted.
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Joined: 10/01/06
"Fish can't sit down cause they got no laps!!"
It would be a more enjoyable concept if individuals could pioneer the landscape, form villages and towns of their own, elect officals of that town and form player militias to defend them. From my understanding though ( and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong ) you can only form cities if you belong to a clan. I've never personally cared for clans because the players themselves have no control over who makes the decisions and usually ends up with only a few top clans running the whole game.
Originally posted by DAS1337
This is exactly spot on. For players who've never really played sandbox games, DarkFall is a great sandbox. But for anyone who has played many sandboxes, DarkFall clearly falls short.
Novice Member
Joined: 9/22/12
Originally posted by MadnessRealm
Darkfall may not be perfect but it is still a sandbox game. The fact is noone else is making a game like it so we should give props to them for what they have acheived and encourage them with feedback and ideas on how to improve the game.
Elite Member
Joined: 11/16/07
Originally posted by Falesh
Here's some feedback: Don't launch the game with a bunch of broken stuff and exploitable game mechanics. And actually punish the botters, and other people that exploit the broken mechanics for months, unlike the last launch.
With a full loot, PvP centric game, the devs must ensure the playing field is very level.
And last time, with the launch of DF and for many months after, it wasn't. And they didn't, and didn't care.
Why do you think so many people quit? Not because it was "too hardcore" and "they were carebears", it is that AV was unwilling or unable to keep a lid on the hacks/exploits and couldn't/wouldn't/didn't fix the exploitable mechanics like the Bloodwall and the "swimmers" and all the other people that botted their way to skills in the early days. Or punish those that did. Or just plain fix things that were broken.
I like sandbox games, but I like well made, non-exploitable games more.
When AV demonstrates it can put out the second, and as well as the first, they might get my money.
But until then, and based on their first release of DF which was a mess, they won't.
Advanced Member
Joined: 3/20/10
Originally posted by Kyleran
Very much this.
I don't get the point of people creating "if you don't like it leave or don't play it" threads. It doesn't make the game look better, it doesn't make the community look better, It doesn't encourage anyone to actually try the game.
Instead of telling people to "go away" why don't you help to alleviate some of the issue they may have. I love EVE and I talk to people all the time about the game. When they mention something that worries them about it, like FFA PvP, I explain to them how you can play for years and never worry about PvP. When they mention full loot, I epxlain that it's not hard to replace what you lose and that it's what allows the game to have such a robust economic side to it.
Instead of telling people who are worreid about full loot in DF to "go play WoW" why don't you explain that it's the only real penalty for dying and that it's INCREDIBLY EASY to replace items.
However, people who want to see more PvE in DF are absolutely correct. AV agrees with them, many of the formaer and current DF players agree with them. Elitist PvP doods, who only want a FFA deathmatch game disagree.
When poeple complain about constant ganking when you first start, they're right. AV agrees with them, many former and current players agree with them. Ganking was a huge problem when the game first released, all the places new players would have to grind mobs or resources to get started were camped by other players who just wanted to gank. AV did not impliment newbie protection and change the flagging mechanics becuase there was no problem, they did those things because there was indeed a problem.
People that want a sandbox game that offers more than grinding mobs, generic crafting, and PvP are correct. AV agrees with them, many former and current players agree with them. AV isn't redoing the world, dungeons, outdoor raid bosses, adding more quests and lore to the world because "there's so much to do in DF". They're doing these things to address the non PvP problems DF was facing.
AV even agreed that the game needed more "sandboxyness".
It's very much an arena deathmatch/ king of the hill MMO. Running around and fighting other players is pretty much the only point of the game.
Novice Member
Joined: 9/26/12
Originally posted by DAS1337
I will continue making excuses here, because nothing is wrong, this is the way game was made, and is intended. Enough of these same old dime a dozen people that come into original content, and asking to change it into something that has been done, 20 times over.
YOU HAVE RUINED THIS GAMING GENRE, you have opened the path for blood sucking money grabbers to come in and keep developing the same CRAP over and over again, and you dumbasses play into this, and buy these games, pay the subscription for the same thing dressed in different clothes. You are the reason people like me exist, you are the reason minimal original content has been developed in the past 10 years. Stop questioning full loot pvp, asking for PVE servers, stop trying to change it, cause those things are what makes darkfall different than the other piles of steaming feces.
The fact that people are hesitant to try this game because of full loot, PVP based game, wanting to PVE, is sad. There is a reason for full loot (gear is easy as shit to obtain, theres tons of it everywhere, who cares if you lose some? If you're looking into this game, and asking about this, than you should already know this.), PVE is still there, it just comes with a little risk, it makes the game more exciting, why would you want to kill the same ai OVER and OVER again, for what, to say you can beat a computer? where is the fun in that, i just dont see it, true challenge comes from other players, who aren't programmed to do the samething, where eventually you find the loophole to beat. It's different everytime.
Novice Member
Joined: 11/28/05
Originally posted by Seronys
Great post. People that want mindless drivel should look elsewhere. It's pretty sad when the last sliver of decent gaming that has any challenge whatsoever for the non-brain dead is being assaulted.
It's always amazed me as time progresses games get more and more simplified and worthless. Pretty soon gaming will be a spectator only sport. I'm still waiting for the first "game" that is just one long cut scene cinematic.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 10/14/11
Originally posted by CallsignVega
What is really sad are DF fans thinking that DF is the last sliver of challenging gameplay when there are plenty of superior options out there; without the endless, arrogant, chest beating fans.
Originally posted by Seronys
I guess you haven't read his post, and/or don't know what UO and SWG are.
I'll leave it at that, as the rest of your drivel shows clear ignorance about the sandbox genre and what DarkFall was supposed to be.
Novice Member
Joined: 9/18/07
Originally posted by Seronys
I tell you this only one time again, so please pay attention ...
Hardcore PvP = WoW Arena PvP
The griefing thing from darkfall has nothing to do with hardcore.
Why? Simple... take the best Arena Gamer from WoW and the best darkfall player. Invente a new PvP game and let them play against each other. You will see how the WoW-Gamer rips the Darkfail-Boy appart.
Originally posted by Mari2k
Silly argument. You don't know who'd win.
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Joined: 3/07/07
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way.
A game is supposed to be the vision of the developer, not the players. If the players want to create a game; they can get together to make their own game. Don't make demands of a developer to go outside what their vision of their game should be.
"If at first you don't succeed, excessive force is probably the answer."
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Joined: 12/15/05
Just beacuse there is FFA PVP dosen't automaticly a sandbox game.
A true sandbox game must have more features than just mindless gang zerg fest with some odd mobs here and there.
Check out SWG,UO AC,EVE for reference.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.
Originally posted by Seronys
Answer me this question:
If gear doesnt matter then why even have the ability to loot stuff? In full loot PvP games the gear never matters and is easily replaced so it begs the question why even have it?
Originally posted by Ravenmane
And then game closes down. Brillant solution!
I'd agree with you if developers were making a game solely for themselves. Then it could have as many bugs, exploits and other varied problem as they want, they're the only ones playing the games. However, if you're selling a broken product, your customers are going to want you to fix those issues, or make the necessary changes to certain features to improve the game. Developers have nothing to lose by fixing what's broken and listening a bit more to their playerbase to understand what's wrong.
I don't know if you've ever played DarkFall, but here's 2 short examples of things the playerbase really needed, but Aventurine delivered too late.
Back at launch in Feb 2009 until early 2011 (April?), the alignement system was highly exploitable, prevented players from defending their allies without being flagged as a Red (PKer, which prevents visiting NPC cities), and even prevented them from defending themselves without risking of going red. Then Aventurine introduced Chaos Churches, areas where you can "redeem" yourself and go back to being a Blue (a good player, which gives access to npc cities). A problem though, most players had an alignement of -100 (Red), and Chaos church only recovers 2 points a day, so they'd have to wait 50 days without PvP to finally be back to being a Blue player. Finally, months later, AV introduced Lawless Areas (Alignement doesn't apply in those areas) and the issue was more or less solved.
Problem? Between 2009 to 2011, Aventurine lost many players who grew tired of this broken and exploitable alignement system.
Another example was the Skill System. The skill system in in DarkFall was initially at launch extremely exploitable. Players were macro'ing using Bloodwalls (alt characters stand still in a Player City for the purpose of being used as a punching bag so that players may raise their skills without risk). Aventurine finally addressed this by greatly boosting the skill gain from PvE. But DarkFall was a very grindy game, it took an insane amount of grinding (in months) to reach the "veteran" level, but it was extremely important. The gap between a new player and a Veteran is immense. New player would have about 100 HPs, deal about 10 damage on naked/low armor target, where as Veterans had 300-400 HPs, dealt about 40-60 damage (and up to 90 with mounts). Suffice to say, these veteran players would indirectly encourage other players to macro and exploit just like they (the veterans) have had to do since launch. Exploiting monsters was rampant, but was more or less addressed in Conquer The Sea expac (late 2009). However, removing mob exploiting made grinding skills even more tedious, and that remained true until Aventurine finally introduced Diminishing Returns for Stats (You'll earn more HP points by going from 20 to 21 Vitality than you would going from 90 to 91) and later on Meditation (offline skilling). This finally allowed players to become competitive faster.
Problem? In fact, the biggest problem in DarkFall's history. The insame amount of grind required, the need to macro, exploit, AFK swim at night for stats, etc killed the playerbase. Players who had exploited and macro'ed were never banned or rolled back either.
Had Aventurine bothered to listen to their playerbase early on, and address those issues, they'd have a much larger playerbase than they currently have (which is only a ridicule fraction of what it was at launch). DarkFall Unholy Wars would have possibly come sooner because AV would have the money to hire more employees (DarkFall: Unholy Wars was originally known as DarkFall 2010...implying it'd be released in 2010, don't need to tell you which date it is today)
It's not about "having to change their visions", it's about fixing what's wrong, and running a business. If a company doesn't understand that, well they'll go under. It's happened before, it will happen again.
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Originally posted by Seronys
Its not the pvp or full loot. Its the players it seems to attract. Case in point.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.


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Eric Mohn's paintings are the essence of patience and concentration. Left a quadriplegic after a 1963 car accident, he was determined to bring forth the creative process still within. He graduated from Montgomery College in 1977 and proceeded to earn his bachelor's degree from Saint Andrews Presbyterian College, NC. Eric opened a studio in Thurmont and donated this print to the Thurmont Regional Library just months before his untimely death in 2008.


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Vladimir Nabokov
|Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov in Montreaux, 1969
|Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899a
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
|2 July 1977
(aged 78)
Montreux, Switzerland
|Novelist, lepidopterist, professor
|Literary movement
|Modernism, Postmodernism
|Notable works
|The Defense (1930)
The Gift (1938)
Lolita (1955)
Pnin (1957)
Pale Fire (1962)
Speak, Memory (1936–1966)
Ada, or Ardor (1968)
|Vera Nabokov
|Dmitri Nabokov
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (/nəˈbɔːkəf, ˈnæbəˌkɔːf, -ˌkɒf/;[1] Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr nɐˈbokəf] ( listen), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist. While Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian, he later rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel, and often considered his finest work in English. It exhibits the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels;[2] Pale Fire (1962) was ranked at 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, Speak, Memory, was listed eighth on the Modern Library nonfiction list.[3] He was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction seven times, but never won it.
- 1 Life and career
- 2 Work
- 3 Nabokov's synesthesia
- 4 Entomology
- 5 Chess problems
- 6 Politics and views
- 7 Influence
- 8 List of works
- 9 Works about Nabokov
- 10 Notes
- 11 Citations
- 12 References
- 13 Further reading
- 14 External links
Life and career[edit]
Nabokov was born on 22 April 1899 (10 April 1899 Old Style), in Saint Petersburg,b to a wealthy and prominent family of minor nobility. He was the eldest of five children of liberal lawyer, statesman, and journalist Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov and his wife, Elena Ivanovna née Rukavishnikova. His cousins included the composer Nicolas Nabokov. He spent his childhood and youth in St. Petersburg and at the country estate Vyra near Siverskaya, to the south of the city.
Nabokov's childhood, which he had called "perfect", was remarkable in several ways. The family spoke Russian, English, and French in their household, and Nabokov was trilingual from an early age. In fact, much to his patriotic father's chagrin, Nabokov could read and write in English before he could in Russian. In Speak, Memory Nabokov recalls numerous details of his privileged childhood, and his ability to recall in vivid detail memories of his past was a boon to him during his permanent exile, and provided a theme that echoes from his first book Mary to later works such as Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. While the family was nominally Orthodox, they felt no religious fervor, and Vladimir was not forced to attend church after he lost interest. In 1916, Nabokov inherited the estate Rozhdestveno, next to Vyra, from his uncle Vasiliy Ivanovich Rukavishnikov ("Uncle Ruka" in Speak, Memory), but lost it in the October Revolution one year later; this was the only house he ever owned.[citation needed]
After the 1917 February Revolution, Nabokov's father became a secretary of the Russian Provisional Government and, after the Bolshevik (October) Revolution, the family was forced to flee the city for Crimea, not expecting to be away for very long. They lived at a friend's estate and in September 1918 moved to Livadiya, at the time part of the short-lived first Ukrainian Republic; Nabokov's father became a minister of justice in the Crimean Regional Government.
After the withdrawal of the German Army (November 1918) and the defeat of the White Army (early 1919), the Nabokovs sought exile in western Europe. They settled briefly in England and Vladimir enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge, first studying zoology, then Slavic and Romance languages. His examination results on the first part of the Tripos, taken at the end of second year, were a starred first. He sat the second part of the exam in his third year, just after his father's death. Nabokov feared that he might fail the exam, but his script was marked second-class. His final examination result was second-class, and his B.A. conferred in 1922. Nabokov later drew on his Cambridge experiences to write several works, including the novels Glory and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
In 1920, Nabokov's family moved to Berlin, where his father set up the émigré newspaper Rul' ("Rudder"). Nabokov followed them to Berlin two years later, after completing his studies at Cambridge.
Berlin years (1922–37)[edit]
In March 1922, Nabokov's father was fatally shot in Berlin by the Russian monarchist Piotr Shabelsky-Bork as he was trying to shield the real target, Pavel Milyukov, a leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party-in-exile. This mistaken, violent death would echo again and again in Nabokov's fiction, where characters would meet their deaths under accidental terms. (In Pale Fire, for example, one interpretation of the novel has an assassin mistakenly kill the poet John Shade, when his actual target is a fugitive European monarch.) Shortly after his father's death, Nabokov's mother and sister moved to Prague.
Nabokov stayed in Berlin, where he had become a recognised poet and writer within the émigré community and published under the nom de plume V. Sirin (a reference to the fabulous bird of Russian folklore). To supplement his scant writing income, he taught languages and gave tennis and boxing lessons.[4] Of his fifteen Berlin years, Dieter E. Zimmer wrote: "He never became fond of Berlin, and at the end intensely disliked it. He lived within the lively Russian community of Berlin that was more or less self-sufficient, staying on after it had disintegrated because he had nowhere else to go to. He knew little German. He knew few Germans except for landladies, shopkeepers, the petty immigration officials at the police headquarters."[5]
In 1922 Nabokov became engaged to Svetlana Siewert; she broke off the engagement in early 1923, her parents worrying that he could not provide for her.[6] In May 1923 he met a Russian-Jewish woman, Véra Evseyevna Slonim, at a charity ball in Berlin[4] and married her in April 1925.[4] Their only child, Dmitri, was born in 1934.
In 1936, Véra lost her job because of the increasingly anti-Semitic environment; also in that year the assassin of Nabokov's father was appointed second-in-command of the Russian émigré group. In the same year Nabokov began seeking a job in the English-speaking world. In 1937 he left Germany for France, where he had a short affair with Russian émigrée Irina Guadanini; his family followed, making their last visit to Prague en route. They settled in Paris, but also spent time in Cannes, Menton, Cap d'Antibes, and Fréjus. In May 1940 the Nabokov family fled from the advancing German troops to the United States on board the SS Champlain, with the exception of Nabokov's brother Sergei, who died at the Neuengamme concentration camp on 9 January 1945.[7]
United States[edit]
The Nabokovs settled in Manhattan and Vladimir began volunteer work as an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History.[8]
Nabokov joined the staff of Wellesley College in 1941 as resident lecturer in comparative literature. The position, created specifically for him, provided an income and free time to write creatively and pursue his lepidoptery. Nabokov is remembered as the founder of Wellesley's Russian Department. The Nabokovs resided in Wellesley, Massachusetts, during the 1941–42 academic year. In September 1942 they moved to Cambridge where they lived until June 1948. Following a lecture tour through the United States, Nabokov returned to Wellesley for the 1944–45 academic year as a lecturer in Russian. In 1945, he became a naturalised citizen of the United States. He served through the 1947–48 term as Wellesley's one-man Russian Department, offering courses in Russian language and literature. His classes were popular, due as much to his unique teaching style as to the wartime interest in all things Russian.[citation needed] At the same time he was the de facto curator of lepidoptery at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.[9] After being encouraged by Morris Bishop, Nabokov left Wellesley in 1948 to teach Russian and European literature at Cornell University, where he taught until 1959. Among his students at Cornell was future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who later identified Nabokov as a major influence on her development as a writer.[10]
Nabokov wrote Lolita while travelling on butterfly-collection trips in the western United States that he undertook every summer. Véra acted as "secretary, typist, editor, proofreader, translator and bibliographer; his agent, business manager, legal counsel and chauffeur; his research assistant, teaching assistant and professorial understudy"; when Nabokov attempted to burn unfinished drafts of Lolita, it was Véra who stopped him. He called her the best-humoured woman he had ever known.[4][11]
In June 1953 Nabokov and his family went to Ashland, Oregon. There he finished Lolita and began writing the novel Pnin. He roamed the nearby mountains looking for butterflies, and wrote a poem called Lines Written in Oregon. On 1 October 1953, he and his family returned to Ithaca, New York, where he would later teach the young writer Thomas Pynchon.[12]
Montreux and death[edit]
After the great financial success of Lolita, Nabokov was able to return to Europe and devote himself exclusively to writing. His son had obtained a position as an operatic bass at Reggio Emilia. On 1 October 1961, he and Véra moved to the Montreux Palace Hotel in Montreux, Switzerland; he stayed there until the end of his life.[13] From his sixth-floor quarters he conducted his business and took tours to the Alps, Corsica, and Sicily to hunt butterflies. In 1976 he was hospitalised with an undiagnosed fever. He was rehospitalised in Lausanne in 1977 suffering from severe bronchial congestion. He died on 2 July in Montreux surrounded by his family and, according to his son, Dmitri, "with a triple moan of descending pitch".[14] His remains were cremated and are buried at the Clarens cemetery in Montreux.[15][16]
At the time of his death, he was working on a novel titled The Original of Laura. His wife Véra and son Dmitri were entrusted with Nabokov's literary executorship,[4] and though he asked them to burn the manuscript,[17] they chose not to destroy his final work. The incomplete manuscript, around 125 handwritten index cards long,[18] remained in a Swiss bank vault where only two people, Dmitri Nabokov and an unknown person, had access. Portions of the manuscript were shown to Nabokov scholars. In April, 2008, Dmitri announced that he would publish the novel.[19]
Prior to the incomplete novel's publication, several short excerpts of The Original of Laura were made public: German weekly Die Zeit, reproduced some of Nabokov's original index cards obtained by its reporter Malte Herwig in its 14 August 2008 issue. In the accompanying article Herwig concludes that Laura, although fragmentary, is "vintage Nabokov".[20]
In July 2009, Playboy magazine acquired the rights to print a 5,000-word excerpt from The Original of Laura. It was printed in the December issue.[21]
The Original of Laura was published on 17 November 2009.
Nabokov's first writings were in Russian, but he came to his greatest distinction in the English language. For this achievement, he has been compared to Joseph Conrad, yet Nabokov viewed this as a dubious comparison, as Conrad composed in French and English. Nabokov disdained the comparison for aesthetic reasons, lamenting to the critic Edmund Wilson, "I am too old to change Conradically" – which John Updike later called, "itself a jest of genius".[22] Nabokov translated many of his own early works into English, sometimes in cooperation with his son Dmitri. His trilingual upbringing had a profound influence on his artistry.
Nabokov himself translated into Russian two books that he had originally written in English, Conclusive Evidence and Lolita. The "translation" of Conclusive Evidence was made because of Nabokov's feeling of imperfection in the English version. Writing the book, he noted that he needed to translate his own memories into English, and to spend a lot of time explaining things that are well known in Russia; then he decided to re-write the book once again, in his first native language, and after that he made the final version, Speak, Memory (Nabokov first wanted to name it "Speak, Mnemosyne"). Nabokov was a proponent of individualism, and rejected concepts and ideologies that curtailed individual freedom and expression, such as totalitarianism in its various forms, as well as Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis.[23] Poshlost, or as he transcribed it, poshlust, is disdained and frequently mocked in his works.[24] On translating Lolita, Nabokov writes, "I imagined that in some distant future somebody might produce a Russian version of Lolita. I trained my inner telescope upon that particular point in the distant future and I saw that every paragraph, pock-marked as it is with pitfalls, could lend itself to hideous mistranslation. In the hands of a harmful drudge, the Russian version of Lolita would be entirely degraded and botched by vulgar paraphrases or blunders. So I decided to translate it myself."[25]
Nabokov published under the pseudonym "Vladimir Sirin" in the 1920s to 1940s, occasionally to mask his identity from critics.[26] He also makes cameo appearances in some of his novels, such as the character "Vivian Darkbloom" (an anagram of "Vladimir Nabokov"), who appears in both Lolita and Ada, or Ardor," and the character Blavdak Vinomori (another anagram of Nabokov's name) in "King, Queen, Knave."
Nabokov is noted for his complex plots, clever word play, and use of alliteration. He gained both fame and notoriety with his novel Lolita (1955), which tells of a grown man's devouring passion for a twelve-year-old girl. This and his other novels, particularly Pale Fire (1962), won him a place among the greatest novelists of the 20th century. His longest novel, which met with a mixed response, is Ada (1969). He devoted more time to the composition of this novel than any of his others. Nabokov's fiction is characterised by linguistic playfulness. For example, his short story "The Vane Sisters" is famous in part for its acrostic final paragraph, in which the first letters of each word spell out a message from beyond the grave.
Nabokov's stature as a literary critic is founded largely on his four-volume translation and commentary for Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, published in 1964. That commentary ended with an appendix titled Notes on Prosody, which has developed a reputation of its own. It stemmed from his observation that while Pushkin's iambic tetrameters had been a part of Russian literature for a fairly short two centuries, they were clearly understood by the Russian prosodists. On the other hand, he viewed the much older English iambic tetrameters as muddled and poorly documented. In his own words:
I have been forced to invent a simple little terminology of my own, explain its application to English verse forms, and indulge in certain rather copious details of classification before even tackling the limited object of these notes to my translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, an object that boils down to very little—in comparison to the forced preliminaries—namely, to a few things that the non-Russian student of Russian literature must know in regard to Russian prosody in general and to Eugene Onegin in particular.
Nabokov's lectures at Cornell University, as collected in Lectures on Literature, reveal his controversial ideas concerning art.[27] He firmly believed that novels should not aim to teach and that readers should not merely empathise with characters but that a 'higher' aesthetic enjoyment should be attained, partly by paying great attention to details of style and structure. He detested what he saw as 'general ideas' in novels, and so when teaching Ulysses, for example, he would insist students keep an eye on where the characters were in Dublin (with the aid of a map) rather than teaching the complex Irish history that many critics see as being essential to an understanding of the novel. During his ten years at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction, including Bleak House by Charles Dickens, in fifty-minute classroom lectures.[28]
In 2010, Kitsch magazine, a student publication at Cornell, published a piece that focused on student reflections on these lectures and also explored Nabokov's long relationship with Playboy.[29]
Nabokov's detractors fault him for being an aesthete and for his over-attention to language and detail rather than character development. In his essay "Nabokov, or Nostalgia", Danilo Kiš wrote that Nabokov's is "a magnificent, complex, and sterile art."[30] Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko said in a Playboy interview that he could hear the clatter of surgical tools in Nabokov's prose.
Nabokov's synesthesia[edit]
Nabokov was a self-described synesthete, who at a young age equated the number five with the colour red.[31] Aspects of synesthesia can be found in several of his works. His wife also exhibited synesthesia; like her husband, her mind's eye associated colours with particular letters. They discovered that Dmitri shared the trait, and moreover that the colours he associated with some letters were in some cases blends of his parents' hues—"which is as if genes were painting in aquarelle".[32]
For some synesthetes, letters are not simply associated with certain colours, they are themselves coloured. Nabokov frequently endowed his protagonists with a similar gift. In Bend Sinister Krug comments on his perception of the word "loyalty" as being like a golden fork lying out in the sun. In The Defense, Nabokov mentioned briefly how the main character's father, a writer, found he was unable to complete a novel that he planned to write, becoming lost in the fabricated storyline by "starting with colours". Many other subtle references are made in Nabokov's writing that can be traced back to his synesthesia. Many of his characters have a distinct "sensory appetite" reminiscent of synesthesia.[33]
His career as an entomologist was equally distinguished. His interest in this field had been inspired by books of Maria Sibylla Merian he had found in the attic of his family's country home in Vyra.[34] Throughout an extensive career of collecting he never learned to drive a car, and he depended on his wife Véra to take him to collecting sites. During the 1940s, as a research fellow in zoology, he was responsible for organizing the butterfly collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. His writings in this area were highly technical. This, combined with his specialty in the relatively unspectacular tribe Polyommatini of the family Lycaenidae, has left this facet of his life little explored by most admirers of his literary works. He described the Karner blue. The genus Nabokovia was named after him in honor of this work, as were a number of butterfly and moth species (e.g. many species in the genera Madeleinea and Pseudolucia bear epithets alluding to Nabokov or names from his novels).[35] In 1967, Nabokov commented: "The pleasures and rewards of literary inspiration are nothing beside the rapture of discovering a new organ under the microscope or an undescribed species on a mountainside in Iran or Peru. It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology and never written any novels at all."[13]
The palaeontologist and essayist Stephen Jay Gould discussed Nabokov's lepidoptery in his essay, "No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov" (reprinted in I Have Landed). Gould notes that Nabokov was occasionally a scientific "stick-in-the-mud". For example, Nabokov never accepted that genetics or the counting of chromosomes could be a valid way to distinguish species of insects, and relied on the traditional (for lepidopterists) microscopic comparison of their genitalia.
The Harvard Museum of Natural History, which now contains the Museum of Comparative Zoology, still possesses Nabokov's "genitalia cabinet", where the author stored his collection of male blue butterfly genitalia.[36][37] "Nabokov was a serious taxonomist," according to the museum staff writer Nancy Pick, author of The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. "He actually did quite a good job at distinguishing species that you would not think were different—by looking at their genitalia under a microscope six hours a day, seven days a week, until his eyesight was permanently impaired."[38]
Though his work was not taken seriously by professional lepidopterists during his life, new genetic research supports Nabokov's hypothesis that a group of butterfly species, called the Polyommatus blues, came to the New World over the Bering Strait in five waves, eventually reaching Chile.[39]
Many of Nabokov's fans have tried to ascribe literary value to his scientific papers, Gould notes. Conversely, others have claimed that his scientific work enriched his literary output. Gould advocates a third view, holding that the other two positions are examples of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Rather than assuming that either side of Nabokov's work caused or stimulated the other, Gould proposes that both stemmed from Nabokov's love of detail, contemplation, and symmetry.
Chess problems[edit]
Nabokov spent considerable time during his exile on the composition of chess problems. Such compositions he published in the Russian émigré press, Poems and Problems (18 chess compositions) and Speak, Memory (one problem). He describes the process of composing and constructing in his memoir: "The strain on the mind is formidable; the element of time drops out of one's consciousness". To him, the "originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity" of creating a chess problem was similar to that in any other art.
Politics and views[edit]
Nabokov described himself as a classical liberal, in the tradition of his father.[40] In a poem he wrote in 1917, he described Lenin's Bolsheviks as "grey rag-tag people".[41] Later, during his American period, he expressed contempt for student activism, and all collective movements. In both letters and interviews, he reveals a profound contempt for the New Left movements of the 1960s, describing the protestors as "conformists" and "goofy hoodlums".[42][43] Nabokov supported the Vietnam War effort and voiced admiration for President Richard Nixon.[44][45][46] On his religious views, Nabokov was an agnostic.[47]
Nabokov admitted to having a "prejudice" against women writers. He wrote to Edmund Wilson, who had been making suggestions for his lectures: "I dislike Jane [Austen], and am prejudiced, in fact against all women writers. They are in another class."[48][49] However, on rereading Mansfield Park he soon changed his mind and taught it in his literature course; he also praised the work of Mary McCarthy.[50] Although his wife Véra Nabokov worked as his personal translator and secretary, he made publicly known that his ideal translator was a male, and particularly not a "Russian-born female".[51][52] In the first chapter of Glory he attributes the protagonist's similar prejudice to the impressions made by children's writers like Lidiya Charski,[53] and in the short story "The Admiralty Spire" deplores the posturing, snobbery, antisemitism, and cutesiness he considered characteristic of Russian women authors.
The Russian literary critic Yuly Aykhenvald was an early admirer of Nabokov, citing in particular his ability to imbue objects with life: "he saturates trivial things with life, sense and psychology and gives a mind to objects; his refined senses notice colorations and nuances, smells and sounds, and everything acquires an unexpected meaning and truth under his gaze and through his words."[54] The critic James Wood argued that Nabokov's use of descriptive detail proved an "overpowering, and not always very fruitful, influence on two or three generations after him", including authors such as Martin Amis and John Updike.[55] While a student at Cornell in the 1950s, Thomas Pynchon attended several of Nabokov's lectures[56] and went on to make a direct allusion to Lolita in chapter six of his novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) in which Serge, counter-tenor in the band the Paranoids, sings:
- What chance has a lonely surfer boy
- For the love of a surfer chick,
- With all these Humbert Humbert cats
- Coming on so big and sick?
- For me, my baby was a woman,
- For him she's just another nymphet.
It has also been argued that Pynchon's prose style is influenced by Nabokov's preference for actualism over realism.[57] Of the authors who came to prominence during Nabokov's lifetime, John Banville,[58] Don DeLillo,[59] Salman Rushdie,[60] and Edmund White[61] were all influenced by him.
Several authors who came to prominence in the 1990s and 2000s have also cited Nabokov's work as a literary influence. Aleksandar Hemon, whose high-wire wordplay and sense of the absurd are often compared to Nabokov's, has acknowledged the latter's impact on his writing. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon listed Lolita and Pale Fire among the "books that, I thought, changed my life when I read them,"[62] and stated that "Nabokov's English combines aching lyricism with dispassionate precision in a way that seems to render every human emotion in all its intensity but never with an ounce of schmaltz or soggy language".[63] Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides said that "Nabokov has always been and remains one of my favorite writers. He's able to juggle ten balls where most people can juggle three or four."[64] T. Coraghessan Boyle said that "Nabokov's playfulness and the ravishing beauty of his prose are ongoing influences" on his writing,[65] and Jhumpa Lahiri,[66] Marisha Pessl,[67] Maxim D. Shrayer,[68] Zadie Smith,[69] and Ki Longfellow[70] have also acknowledged Nabokov's influence. Nabokov is featured both as an individual character and implicitly in W. G. Sebald's 1993 novel The Emigrants.[71] The song cycle "Sing, Poetry" on the 2011 contemporary classical album Troika comprises settings of Russian and English versions of three of Nabokov's poems by such composers as Jay Greenberg, Michael Schelle and Lev Zhurbin.[72]
List of works[edit]
Works about Nabokov[edit]
- Boyd, Brian. Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-691-06794-5 (hardback) 1997. ISBN 0-691-02470-7 (paperback). London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. ISBN 0-7011-3700-2 (hardback)
- Boyd, Brian, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-691-06797-X (hardback) 1993. 0-691-02471-5 (paperback). London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. ISBN 0-7011-3701-0 (hardback)
- Ch'ien, Evelyn. See chapter, "A Shuttlecock Over the Atlantic" in "Weird English." Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Field, Andrew. VN The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Crown Publishers. 1986. ISBN 0-517-56113-1
- Parker, Stephen Jan. Understanding Vladimir Nabokov. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1987. 978-0872494954.
- Proffer, Elendea, ed. Vladimir Nabokov: A Pictorial Biography. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1991. ISBN 0-87501-078-4 (a collection of photographs)
- Rivers, J.E., and Nicol, Charles. Nabokov's Fifth Arc. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0-292-75522-2.
- Schiff, Stacy. Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). New York, NY.: Random House, 1999. ISBN 0-679-44790-3.
- Alexandrov, Vladimir. Nabokov's Otherworld. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
- Blackwell, Stephen. The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009.
- Hardy Jr., James D. and Martin, Ann. "Light of My Life": Love, Time and Memory in Nabokov's Lolita. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.
- Johnson, Donald Barton. Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1985.
- Foster, John Burt. Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
- Livry, Anatoly. «Nabokov le Nietzschéen», HERMANN, Paris, 2010 (French)
- Ливри, Анатолий. Физиология Сверхчеловека. Введение в третье тысячелетие. СПб.: Алетейя, 2011. — 312 с. http://exlibris.ng.ru/non-fiction/2011-06-02/6_game.html
- Meyer, Priscilla. Find What the Sailor Has Hidden: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
- Nicol, Charles and Barabtarlo, Gennady. A Small Alpine Form: Studies in Nabokov's Short Fiction. London, Garland, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8153-0857-7.
- Pifer, Ellen. Nabokov and the Novel. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
- Rutledge, David. Nabokov's Permanent Mystery: The Expression of Metaphysics in His Work. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.
- Shrayer, Maxim D. The World of Nabokov's Stories. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1998.
- Shrayer, Maxim D. "Jewish Questions in Nabokov's Life and Art." In: Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives. Ed. Julian W. Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. PP. 73–91.
- Toker, Leona. Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.
- Trousdale, Rachel. Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination: Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Wood, Michael. The Magician's Doubts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.
- Zanganeh, Lila Azam. The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-07992-0
- Alexandrov, Vladimir E., ed. The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. ISBN 0-8153-0354-8.
- Funke, Sarah. Véra's Butterflies: First Editions by Vladimir Nabokov Inscribed to his Wife. New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 1999. ISBN 0-9654020-1-0
- Juliar, Michael. Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. ISBN 0-8240-8590-6.
Media adaptations[edit]
- Peter Medak's short television film Nabokov on Kafka is a dramatisation of Nabokov's lectures on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. The part of Nabokov is played by Christopher Plummer.
- Nabokov makes three cameo appearances, at widely scattered points in his life, in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants.[71]
- See Lolita.
- In 1972 the novel King, Queen, Knave was released as a movie directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Gina Lollobrigida, David Niven and John Moulder-Brown.
- In 1978 the novel Despair was adapted by Tom Stoppard for the movie directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
- In 1986 his first novel Mary (in Russian Maschenka) was loosely adapted for the movie Maschenka, starring Cary Elwes.
- The novel The Defense was adapted as a feature film, The Luzhin Defence, in 2000 by director Marleen Gorris. The film starred John Turturro and Emily Watson.
- Johnson, Kurt, and Steve Coates. Nabokov's blues: The scientific odyssey of a literary genius. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-137330-6 (very accessibly written)
- Sartori, Michel, ed. Les Papillons de Nabokov [The butterflies of Nabokov]. Lausanne: Musée cantonal de Zoologie, 1993. ISBN 2-9700051-0-7 (exhibition catalogue, primarily in English)
- Zimmer, Dieter E. A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths. Privately published, 2001. ISBN 3-00-007609-3 (web page)
Confusion over his birth date was generated by some people misunderstanding the relationship between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. At the time of Nabokov's birth, the offset between the calendars was 12 days. His date of birth in the Julian calendar was 10 April 1899;[73] in the Gregorian, 22 April 1899.[73] The fact that the offset increased from 12 to 13 days for dates occurring after February 1900 was always irrelevant to earlier dates, and hence a 13-day offset should never have been applied to Nabokov's date of birth. Nevertheless, it was so misapplied by some writers, and 23 April came to be erroneously shown in many places as his birthday. In his memoirs Speak, Memory Nabokov indicates that 22 April was the correct date but that he nevertheless preferred to celebrate his birthday "with diminishing pomp" on 23 April (p. 6). As he happily pointed out on several occasions during interviews, this meant he also shared a birthday with William Shakespeare and Shirley Temple (see, for example, his New York Times interview with Alden Whitman on 23 April 1969, p. 20; see also Brian Boyd's biography).
- ^ "Nabokov". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
- ^ "100 Best Novels". Modern Library. 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ "100 Best Nonfiction". Modern Library. 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Amis, Martin. Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions. pages 115–118. Penguin Books (1993) printed 1994. ISBN 0-14-023858-1.
- ^ Dieter E. Zimmer Presentation of book Nabokov's Berlin at the International Vladimir Nabokov Symposium, St. Petersburg, 15 July 2002.
- ^ Schiff, Stacy. "Vera, chapter 1, para 6". The New York Times.
- ^ Lev Grossman. "The gay Nabokov". Salon.com. 18 May 2000. Accessed on 8 December 2013.
- ^ "Nabokov's Type: Lysandra cormion". Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ "Nabokov, Scientist" Natural History, July, 1999
- ^ Ginsberg interview with Bryan Garner
- ^ For Véra's varied roles, see her New York Times obituary, "Vera Nabokov, 89, Wife, Muse and Agent", 11 April 1991; the non-incinerated Lolita appears in Brian Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, p. 170; Véra's charm appears in both the Times obituary and p. 601 of Boyd.
- ^ "Snapshot: Nabokov's Retreat"[dead link], Medford Mail Tribune, 5 November 2006, p. 2
- ^ a b Herbert Gold (Summer-Fall 1967). "Vladimir Nabokov, The Art of Fiction No. 40". The Paris Review.
- ^ Robert McCrum, "The Final Twist in Nabokov's Untold Story." The Observer (25 October 2009)[1]
- ^ The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. Vladimir E. Alexandrov (editor). Garland Publishing. New York (1995) ISBN 0-8153-0354-8, pages xxix–l
- ^ Vladimir Nabokov at Find a Grave
- ^ Connolly, Kate (22 April 2008). "Nabokov's last work will not be burned". The Guardian (UK). Retrieved 24 June 2008.
- ^ Interview with Dmitri Nabokov on NPR – 30 April 2008
- ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (28 April 2008). "Son Plans to Publish Nabokov's Last Novel". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ "Sein letztes Spiel" (in German). Die Zeit. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ "Playboy gets exclusive rights to publish Nabokov's last work /". Mosnews.com. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
- ^ This lament came in 1941, with Nabokov an apprentice American for less than one year. Nabokov, Vladimir. Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov–Wilson Letters, 1940–1971, p. 50. Nabokov, never pen-shy, added in parentheses "this is a good one." The Updike gloss appears in Updike, John, Hugging the Shore, p. 221. Later in the Wilson letters, Nabokov offers a solid, non-comic appraisal: "Conrad knew how to handle readymade English better than I; but I know better the other kind. He never sinks to the depths of my solecisms, but neither does he scale my verbal peaks." This is in November 1950, p. 282.
- ^ The Garland Companion to VN, ibid, pages 412ff
- ^ The Garland Companion to VN, ibid, pages 628ff
- ^ Toffler, Alvin. "Playboy interview: Vladimir Nabokov". Playboy. Playboy. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
- ^ Whiteman, Alden (5 July 1977). "Vladimir Nabokov, Author of 'Lolita' and 'Ada,' Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
- ^ Strehle, Susan."Actualism: Pynchon's Debt to Nabokov". University of Wisconsin Press, 1971, p. 37-38.
- ^ collected by Fredson Bowers in 1980 and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- ^ http://kitschmag.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&limit=9&limitstart=9
- ^ Editors (April 28, 1999) "Discussing Nabokov." Slate. (Retrieved 6-4-2014.)
- ^ Martin, Patrick. "Synaesthesia, metaphor and right-brain functioning" in Egoist.
- ^ Nabokov interview. BBC Television (1962)
- ^ John Burt Foster (1993) Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism Princeton University Press pp26-32
- ^ Todd, Kim. Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis. Harcourt. p. 11, ISBN 978-0-15-101108-7
- ^ "Butterflies and moths bearing Nabokov's name". Zembla. 1996. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ Pick, Nancy; Mark Sloan (2004). The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-053718-0. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ Pick, Nancy (2005). "Blood, Sweat, and Bones" (PDF). Colloquy (Alumni Quarterly) (Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) (Spring 2005): 8. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ^ Zimmer, Carl (25 January 2011). "Nabokov Theory On Butterfly Evolution Is Vindicated". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
- ^ Strong opinions, Vladimir Nabokov, Vintage Books, 1990.
- ^ Vladimir Nabokov, Barbara Wyllie, London 2010, p. 22.
- ^ Discourse and ideology in Nabokov's prose, by David Henry James Larmour, p. 17, Routledge, 2002.
- ^ Strong opinions, Vladimir Nabokov, Vintage Books, 1990, p. 139.
- ^ Larmour, page 17
- ^ Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), by Stacy Schiff, Random House Digital, Inc., 2000.
- ^ Book business: publishing past, present, and future, by Jacob Epstein, pp. 76–77, W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
- ^ Donald E. Morton (1974). Vladimir Nabokov. F. Ungar Publishing Company. p. 8. ISBN 9780804426381.
Nabokov is a self-affirmed agnostic in matters religious, political, and philosophical.
- ^ Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, ed. Simon Karlinsky, revised edn (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), p. 268.
- ^ Siggy Frank, Nabokov's Theatrical Imagination', (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 'p. 170.
- ^ Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, ed. Simon Karlinsky, revised edn (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), p. 274.
- ^ Ellen Pifer, "Her monster, his nymphet: Nabokov and Mary Shelley" in Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives, ed. by Julian W. Connolly, (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- ^ David S. Rutledge, Nabokov's Permanent Mystery: The Expression of Metaphysics in His Work, (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2011), fn. 7, p. 187
- ^ From Chapter 1: "Martin's first books were in English: his mother loathed the Russian magazine for children Zadushevnoe Slovo (The Heartfelt Word), and inspired in him such aversion for Madame Charski's young heroines with dusky complexions and titles that even later Martin was wary of any book written by a woman, sensing even in the best of such books an unconscious urge on the part of a middle-aged and perhaps chubby lady to dress up in a pretty name and curl up on the sofa like a pussy cat."
- ^ Chamberlain, Lesley (2006). The Philosophy Steamer. Great Britain: Atlantic Books. p. 283. ISBN 978 184354 093 9.
- ^ Wood, James. "Discussing Nabokov", Slate. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ Siegel, Jules. "Who is Thomas Pynchon, and why did he take off with my wife?" Playboy, March 1977.
- ^ Strehle, Susan. "Actualism: Pynchon's Debt to Nabokov", Contemporary Literature 24.1, Spring 1983. pp. 30–50.
- ^ "John Banville", The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ Gussow, Mel. "Toasting (and Analyzing) Nabokov; Cornell Honors the Renaissance Man Who, oh Yes, Wrote 'Lolita'", The New York Times, 15 September 1998.
- ^ Lowery, George (23 October 2007). "Bombs, bands and birds recalled as novelist Salman Rushdie trips down memory lane". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ "An Interview with Edmund White", Bookslut, February 2007. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ Chabon, Michael (July 2006). "It Changed My Life". michaelchabon.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2006. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ Stringer-Hye, Suellen. "VN Collation No.26". Zembla. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ "Q & A with Jeffrey Eugenides", 5th Estate. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ "A Conversation with T. C. Boyle", Penguin Reading Guides.
- ^ "The Hum Inside the Skull, Revisited", The New York Times, 16 January 2005. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ "An interview with Marisha Pessl", Bookslut.com, September 2006. Retrieved 15 June 2007.
- ^ Maxim D. Shayer, "Literature Is Love," in Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration, 2007, pp. 178–85.
- ^ "Zadie Smith" The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ Woman's Hour, a long-lived and popular English radio show, 1993.
- ^ a b Cohen, Lisa, "Review: The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald", Boston Review, February/ March 1997 issue
- ^ "Troika: Russia's westerly poetry in three orchestral song cycles", Rideau Rouge Records, ASIN: B005USB24A, 2011.
- ^ a b Brian Boyd p 37
- Boyd, Brian (1993). Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02470-7. ISBN 9780691024707.
Further reading[edit]
- Deroy, Chloé, Vladimir Nabokov, Icare russe et Phénix américain (2010). Dijon: EUD
- Gezari, Janet K.; Wimsatt, W. K., "Vladimir Nabokov: More Chess Problems and the Novel", Yale French Studies, No. 58, In Memory of Jacques Ehrmann: Inside Play Outside Game (1979), pp. 102–115, Yale University Press.
External links[edit]
- Vladimir-Nabokov.org – Site of the Vladimir Nabokov French Society, Enchanted Researchers (Société française Vladimir Nabokov : Les Chercheurs Enchantés).
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- "Nabokov under Glass" – New York Public Library exhibit.
- Herbert Gold (Summer–Fall 1967). "Vladimir Nabokov, The Art of Fiction No. 40". The Paris Review.
- The Atlantic Monthly – Review of Nabokov's Butterflies
- "The Life and Works of Vladimir Nabokov". The New York Public Library, profile and lectures. 2002
- Works by or about Vladimir Nabokov in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Vladimir Nabokov at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Don Reynolds. "Vladimir Nabokov". The Oregon Encyclopedia.
- Nabokov Online Journal
- "The problem with Nabokov". By Martin Amis 14 November 2009
- "Talking about Nabokov" George Feifer, Russia Beyond the Headlines, 24 February 2010
- "The Gay Nabokov". Salon Magazine 17 May 2000
- BBC interviews 4 October 1969
- Images of Nabokov First Editions
- Nabokov Bibliography: All About Vladimir Nabokov in Print
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Text-to-speech (TTS) is the technology that makes it possible. The application takes text and from it produces artificial, machine-made speech. TTS has been around for many years, though only in the past few years has synthesized speech reached a high level of naturalness. Better sounding speech combined with the explosive popularity of small mobile devices with even smaller screens has increased consumer demand for TTS, especially since it frees people to multitask and drive more safely while using their devices.
People with special needs also benefit from TTS. For people with low vision, TTS reads text from files, books, and websites, making information accessible. For people who can't speak, TTS gives them a voice to speak with. Stephen Hawking is a famous example (he prefers his own instantly recognizable version of TTS). Students learning a new language can improve pronunciation or listening skills with TTS.
Corporations also like TTS because the technology can be a way to provide information effectively over the telephone.
Natural Voices is AT&T's state-of-the-art TTS product. Its starts with a database of high-quality recorded speech produced under optimum conditions with high-quality recording equipment. The individual sounds in the speech (called phonemes) are carefully labeled so that when a new word or sentence is required, the algorithms can select the best set of sounds to retrieve from the database, joining them together to be spoken. Knowing how to do this effectively is hard, and much of our research is devoted to improving these algorithms to achieve even more natural-sounding TTS in the future.
To try AT&T Natural VoicesTM, go to the demo page and enter text. The words you type are transmitted to an AT&T server running Natural Voices so you can hear your words spoken. Natural Voices supports English (both US and UK versions), German, Spanish, and French.
Read more about the evolution of the Natural Voices technology from the article "Mathmematics of . . . Artificial Speech" in Discover magazine.
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Linux Password Policy
From Brandonhutchinson.com
The following examples are on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 system.
Password Aging
New Accounts
/etc/login.defs and /etc/default/useradd are the files related to password aging on new accounts.
# Password aging controls: # # PASS_MAX_DAYS Maximum number of days a password may be used. # PASS_MIN_DAYS Minimum number of days allowed between password changes. # PASS_MIN_LEN Minimum acceptable password length. # PASS_WARN_AGE Number of days warning given before a password expires.
By default, password inactivity and expire date is disabled.
Note that PASS_MIN_LEN in /etc/login.defs has no effect. Minimum password length is controlled by the pam_cracklib module. If minlen= is not specified in pam_cracklib, the default minimum password length is 6 characters.
Existing Accounts
/usr/bin/chage is used to modify password aging on existing accounts. chage does not update the last password change field (field 3) in /etc/shadow, so passwords could expire immediately after running it.
User hutchib was already created with essentially no password aging (the default PASS_MAX_DAYS of 99999). To configure the following:
- A minimum of 7 days between password changes.
- Password expiration after 90 days.
- Begin warning about password expiration 14 days in advance.
# /usr/bin/chage -m 7 -M 90 -W 14 hutchib
What happens when your password expires?
- If the account is inactive (see chage -I and the field 7 in /etc/shadow), you will be unable to login and your password will have to be manually reset by an administrator.
e.g., /var/log/messages
Dec 4 14:33:42 host sshd(pam_unix)[31601]: account hutchib has expired (failed to change password)
- If the account is expired but not inactive, you are allowed a "grace login" where your old password is accepted and you must immediately change your password. After changing your password, the connection is closed and you must login again.
WARNING: Your password has expired. You must change your password now and login again! Changing password for user hutchib. Changing password for hutchib (current) UNIX password: New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. Connection to host closed.
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Password History
Password history--i.e., preventing re-use of old passwords--may be enabled using both pam_unix (stores the old password) and pam_cracklib (prevents re-use). By default, password history is disabled.
Example: Prevent re-use of each user's last 24 passwords.
- Create the password database store.
# touch /etc/security/opasswd # chown root:root /etc/security/opasswd # chmod 600 /etc/security/opasswd
- Configure PAM.
Relevant line in /etc/pam.d/system-auth:
password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow remember=24