Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019964, Mon, 3 May 2010 11:31:20 -0400

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Re: THOUGHTS, Shade's shave
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On May 2, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Jansy wrote:

> JM: Writing under the mask of "someone else" I'd like to remind you
> that I didn't say it was a "rubber duckie" that which was floating
> in the water. I used a round-about way, concering Shade's "pleasure
> cruise," to allude to it: "...floating in the bath-tub like a toy-
> duck (hopefully his slaves were not carrying a razor then)."
> Various bodily parts were mentioned (face, hands and, perhaps,
> toes)...
>

Because only just recently it's been suggested, by way of gentle
implication, at least that's how I took it, that my powers of
perception as regards irony are not what they might be, I feel
obliged to ask: This is irony, right?

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