books every intelligent person should read

[jochen stremmel]

Nobody mentioned Pnin until now? That's a perfect book. (Even if I
don't like it as much as Lolita.) But it has some of the most
beautiful sentences you can find anywhere. And some of them are as
profound as that one:

With the help of the janitor he screwed on to the side of the desk a
pencil sharpener - that highly satisfying, highly philosophical
implement that goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow
finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning
ethereal void as we all must.

Ada is more fun but ...



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