NPPF - Canto 4 - Notes

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:10, David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Unless it can be demonstrated to me that, in the over all scheme of the
> novel, John Shade's poem is completely and totally irrelevant
> 
> Egads.  Anyone who might suggest such a thing is surely going to be ridiculed
> by Milly the Ridiculous.
> 

Thought it sounded Nabokovian.

Unless it can be proven to me--to me as I am now, today, with my heart
and my beard, and my putrefaction --that in the infinite run it does not
matter a jot that a North American girl-child named Dolores Haze had
been deprived of . . . .