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------------------ I would like to add that small VN sick in bed visualized
the giant pencil at the shop "through the crystal of my strangely
translucent state." -- Akiko Nakata
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From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: EDCOMMENT re missing names (fwd)
> ------------------
> 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
>
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the giant pencil at the shop "through the crystal of my strangely
translucent state." -- Akiko Nakata
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: EDCOMMENT re missing names (fwd)
> ------------------
> 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)
>
> ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
>
>
>
> D. Barton Johnson
> NABOKV-L
>
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D. Barton Johnson
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