Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007003, Sat, 2 Nov 2002 09:33:16 -0800

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From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz@concentric.net>
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> "I find nothing more conducive to the blunting of one's appetite than to
> have none but elderly persons sitting around one at table, fouling their
> napkins with the disintegration of their make-up, and surreptitiously
> trying, behind noncommittal smiles, to dislodge the red-hot torture point
of
> a raspberry seed from between false gum and dead gum."
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> -- Pale Fire (Commentary on Line 579)
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