Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001373, Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:38:48 -0700

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Three questions
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Grimpen Mire, with little green patches everywhere into which one may
sink and with no guide to point the track.=0D1940 T. S. Eliot =93East Coker=
=94
ii. 10 In a dark wood, in a bramble, On the edge of a grimpen, where is no
secure foothold.=0D1968 W. S. Baring-Gould =93Annotated Sherlock Holmes=94 =
II.
xxxvi. 47 As is well known, Watson's _Great Grimpen Mire' is Grimspound
Bog, three miles to the north and west of
Widecombe-in-the-Moor.=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
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Hazel is reading T.S. Eliot.


Best,Sergey