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Re: EDCOMMENT re missing names (fwd)
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Dear Don and List...
Apropos of pencils: who can forget how in "Speak, Memory" VN's mother gives
him a four-foot-long specimen.
"Now the object proved to be a giant polygonal Faber pencil, four feet long
and correspondingly thick. It had been hanging as a showpiece in the shop's
window, and she presumed I had coveted it, as I coveted all things that
were not quite purchasable. The shopman had been obliged to ring up an
agent, a "Doctor" Libner (as if the transaction possessed indeed some
pathological import). For an awful moment, I wondered if the point was made
from real graphite. It was. And some years later I satisfied myself, by
drilling a hole in the side, that the lead went right through the whole
length--a perfect case of art for art's sake on the part of faber and Dr.
Libner since the pencil was far too big for use and,indeed,was not meant to
be used."
Regards to all,
Tom (Rymour)
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L
Dear Don and List...
Apropos of pencils: who can forget how in "Speak, Memory" VN's mother gives
him a four-foot-long specimen.
"Now the object proved to be a giant polygonal Faber pencil, four feet long
and correspondingly thick. It had been hanging as a showpiece in the shop's
window, and she presumed I had coveted it, as I coveted all things that
were not quite purchasable. The shopman had been obliged to ring up an
agent, a "Doctor" Libner (as if the transaction possessed indeed some
pathological import). For an awful moment, I wondered if the point was made
from real graphite. It was. And some years later I satisfied myself, by
drilling a hole in the side, that the lead went right through the whole
length--a perfect case of art for art's sake on the part of faber and Dr.
Libner since the pencil was far too big for use and,indeed,was not meant to
be used."
Regards to all,
Tom (Rymour)
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L