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In a message dated 28/01/2006 21:27:58
GMT Standard Time, nabokv-l@UTK.EDU writes:
“And
the more brilliant, the more unusual the man, the nearer he is to the
stake. Stranger always rhymes with danger. The meek
prophet, the enchanter in his cave, the indignant artist, the
nonconforming little schoolboy, all share in the same sacred danger.Â
And this being so, let us bless them, let us bless the freak; for in
the natural evolution of things, the ape would perhaps never have
become man had not a freak appeared in the family . . . “ (from Lectures
on Literature, p. 372)
Chapter
19 of Leviticus, the heart of the Torah, contains "Love your neighbour
as yourself" but it also contains "Love the stranger as yourself". The
commandment to love the stranger is repeated more than any other in the
Torah: 36 times.
Please forgive if this seems a rather Kinbotian reflection.
Speaking of which, I have just heard BBC Radio 3's "Pale Fire". I
thought it was brilliant in what I had supposed to be the almost
impossible circumstances.
Anthony Stadlen
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Stephen H. Blackwell
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Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
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