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From: Craig Duckett <craigd@ttcx.com>
I just read this in Nabokov's LECTURES ON LITERATURE. I don't have the exact
page or section because the book is at home and I am at work.
It's a start...
Craig Duckett
Seattle, WA
>
> On 10 May 1999, Carmela Cangialosi wrote:
>
> >
> > I am a corporate librarian and I am trying to locate the source of a
> Nabokov quotation that our chairman is using in a speech.
> >
> > This is the quote we want to find:
> >
> > Let us bless the freak; for in the natural order of things, the ape
> > would perhaps never have become man had not a freak appeared in the
> > family. Anybody whose mind is proud enough not to breed
> true, secretly
> > carries a bomb at the back of his brain; and so I suggest, just for
> > the fun of the thing, taking that private bomb and
> carefully dropping
> > it upon the model city of commonsense.
> >
> >
> > My address is:
> > carmela.cangialosi@ny.ddb.com
> >
> >
> > I would appreciate any help you can give me.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carmela Cangialosi
> >
> >
>
I just read this in Nabokov's LECTURES ON LITERATURE. I don't have the exact
page or section because the book is at home and I am at work.
It's a start...
Craig Duckett
Seattle, WA
>
> On 10 May 1999, Carmela Cangialosi wrote:
>
> >
> > I am a corporate librarian and I am trying to locate the source of a
> Nabokov quotation that our chairman is using in a speech.
> >
> > This is the quote we want to find:
> >
> > Let us bless the freak; for in the natural order of things, the ape
> > would perhaps never have become man had not a freak appeared in the
> > family. Anybody whose mind is proud enough not to breed
> true, secretly
> > carries a bomb at the back of his brain; and so I suggest, just for
> > the fun of the thing, taking that private bomb and
> carefully dropping
> > it upon the model city of commonsense.
> >
> >
> > My address is:
> > carmela.cangialosi@ny.ddb.com
> >
> >
> > I would appreciate any help you can give me.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carmela Cangialosi
> >
> >
>