pynchon-l-digest V2 #1012

[David Morris]

Nabokov is one of my very favorite authors, and I've not yet read this work, 
but now I've got to go out and get it!

Thanks!
David Morris

>From: Jeremy Osner
>
>FrodeauxB at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Using a pen to write makes it part of me.
>
>Or,
>     On the table glistened a clean sheet of paper
>     and, distinctly outlined against this whiteness,
>     lay a beautifully sharpened pencil...[a]n
>     enlightened descendant of the index finger.
>             Invitation to a Beheading p. 12
>
>--
>The right-hand, still untasted part of the novel, which,
>during our delectable reading, we would lightly feel,
>mechanically testing whether there were still plenty
>left (and our fingers were always gladdened by the
>placid, faithful thickness) has suddenly, for no reason
>at all, become quite meager: a few minutes of quick
>reading, already downhill, and -- O horrible!
>
>Invitation to a Beheading
>Vladimir Nabokov
>http://www.readin.com/books/invitationbeheading/
>

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