Arrggh

[Laura Kelber]

I've read Pale Fire and Lolita. Ada or Pnin next?

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 4:40 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> It made me think of a line in a fine book by an author who was perhaps a
> little too full of himself:
>
> With the help of the janitor he screwed on to the side of the desk a pencil
> sharpener--that highly satisfying, highly philosophical instrument 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.
>
>
>
> Am Di., 5. Nov. 2019 um 22:27 Uhr schrieb John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com
> >:
>
> > I loved this line in the original email and read it a bunch of times.
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 6:15 AM Raphael Saltwood
> > <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...few indeed forward to the shuffling off of whose mortal coil one
> less
> > eagerly looks...,
> > >
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