NPPF - Canto 4 - Notes

[Terrance]

Art is deception and so is nature. 

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> 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 . . . .