NPPF That'd be up the butt, Bob [was Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2 (tendril)]

[David Morris]

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> 
> "The main favor I ask of a serious critic is sufficient perceptiveness to
understand that whatever term or trope I use, my purpose is not to be
facetiously flashy or grotesquely obscure but to express what I feel and think
with the utmost truthfulness and [precision]." --VN

Like so many quotes from Nabokov, I find this one preposterous.  VN is nothing
if not a liguistic show-off, especially in his later works.

DM

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