Arrggh

[Jochen Stremmel]

Pnin, not Ada, even if Mark says so.

Am Do., 7. Nov. 2019 um 18:42 Uhr schrieb Laura Kelber <
laurakelber at gmail.com>:

> 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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>> > --
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>> >
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