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Ralph Ciancio wrote:
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> The quotation "We speak of one thing being like some other thing when what
> we are really craving to do is to describe something that is like nothing
> on earth" is one of Krug's thoughts, the second sentence in the second full
> paragraph on page 155 in the Time Reading Program Special Edition of BEND
> SINISTER (New York: Time Incorporated, 1964). Ralph Ciancio
>
> At 10:55 AM 2/1/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: query on
> >a quote Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:13:43 -0500
> > From: "Juan Martinez" <> To: <>
> >
> >
> > This message was originally submitted by jmm80625@MAIL.UCF.EDU to the
> >NABOKV-L list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the
> >list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your
> >local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program
> >if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are
> >now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you
> >edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove
> >this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the
> >author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your
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> >------------------ Hi! I'm passing the message below on, in the hopes that
> >someone might recognize its source: .................... "We like to
> >speak of one thing in terms o f another thing; but what we'd really like to
> >describe is something that is like nothing else on this earth." I am 99%
> >sure this comes from SOMEWHERE in VN's work, but it could be a short story,
> >or a letter to Bunin or Khodasevich...I've scoured Strong Opinions, Speak,
> >Memory, Boyd and all the other usual suspects to no avail. I'd just like to
> >see the context in which it gets uttered -- he seems to be saying something
> >like: the motive for all literary expression lies in metaphor, in yoking
> >two unrelated things together to produce a new understanding (like, "still
> >visible gleams from an already extinguished star," with "lines written on a
> >postcard from" a deceased person -- in "Breaking The News," or icicles and
> >exclamation marks, "The Vane Sisters," etc.) -- and yet perhaps the
> >ultimate longing of the writer is to describe something with no basis for
> >comparison, a unique Thing, incomparable, etc. If you know of this
> >quotation -- even if you recognize it from Paul Valery or William Gass or
> >John Updike -- I'd much appreciate a gloss. ............................
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (46 lines) ------------------
>
> The quotation "We speak of one thing being like some other thing when what
> we are really craving to do is to describe something that is like nothing
> on earth" is one of Krug's thoughts, the second sentence in the second full
> paragraph on page 155 in the Time Reading Program Special Edition of BEND
> SINISTER (New York: Time Incorporated, 1964). Ralph Ciancio
>
> At 10:55 AM 2/1/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: query on
> >a quote Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:13:43 -0500
> > From: "Juan Martinez" <> To: <>
> >
> >
> > This message was originally submitted by jmm80625@MAIL.UCF.EDU to the
> >NABOKV-L list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the
> >list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your
> >local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program
> >if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are
> >now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you
> >edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove
> >this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the
> >author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your
> >mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (12 lines)
> >------------------ Hi! I'm passing the message below on, in the hopes that
> >someone might recognize its source: .................... "We like to
> >speak of one thing in terms o f another thing; but what we'd really like to
> >describe is something that is like nothing else on this earth." I am 99%
> >sure this comes from SOMEWHERE in VN's work, but it could be a short story,
> >or a letter to Bunin or Khodasevich...I've scoured Strong Opinions, Speak,
> >Memory, Boyd and all the other usual suspects to no avail. I'd just like to
> >see the context in which it gets uttered -- he seems to be saying something
> >like: the motive for all literary expression lies in metaphor, in yoking
> >two unrelated things together to produce a new understanding (like, "still
> >visible gleams from an already extinguished star," with "lines written on a
> >postcard from" a deceased person -- in "Breaking The News," or icicles and
> >exclamation marks, "The Vane Sisters," etc.) -- and yet perhaps the
> >ultimate longing of the writer is to describe something with no basis for
> >comparison, a unique Thing, incomparable, etc. If you know of this
> >quotation -- even if you recognize it from Paul Valery or William Gass or
> >John Updike -- I'd much appreciate a gloss. ............................
>