Arrggh

[James Robertson]

Pnin is wonderful


@jamesjrobertson
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> On 8/11/2019, at 09:23, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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