Arrggh

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Ada is my fave. A rare monster.
Speaking of incest, and narcissism...and some how Russian books (Oblomov?),
check out The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend. And
incest, any Henry Roth fans read his old Confessions?

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 12:56 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I read Ada years ago, and ultimately found it annoying.  I think Nabokov
> intended it to be a literary puzzle, like Pale Fire.  But this puzzle's
> solution is beyond the reach of all readers so far.  Some find his
> description of the interactions of incestuous, insanely rich, and
> narcissistic siblings interesting enough on their own account.  I didn't.
>
> I haven't read Pnin.
>
> I'd recommend:
> Invitation to a Beheading
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 11:42 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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