Nabokovilia: Rebecca Makkai's The Hundred-Year House
"Here's my point: The administration should not be able to access the computers of tenured faculty. Let's imagine you were looking at some Web site of a communist politician, and then you're hauled in front of a committee. When the whole point of tenure is the freedom."
"I'm not tenured."
"You've heard what's happening, I'm sure."
Zee attempted to look bewildered, but he shook his head.
"You hear everything. You know what the deans ate for breakfast. You know when Blum takes a crap. And what I want to know is, when did we become afraid of sex? We ask them to read Lolita and Chaucer, but a nude picture is going to warp their minds? They're adults!" (87)
See also: More Makkai Nabokovilia.
