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From: Mark Bennett
To: 'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:57 AM
Subject: Quote of the Day

"I remember one idiot, particularly tiresome, in yellow siik under a red umbrella; he was sitting astride a mule whose natural dolefulness was doubled by the presence under its eyes of thick icicles formed from frozen tears."
 
The Gift