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From: "Suh, Michael (M&C)" <MSuh@exchange.ML.com>
It's on the first page of his lecture on Kafka's "Metamorphosis," _Lectures
on Literature_
Mike Suh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Galya Diment [SMTP:galya@u.washington.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 5:00 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Beauty and Pity
>
> From: Nick Grundy <nmg20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
>
> Sorry to bother you all with this - and sorry also that it's the second
> quotation I can't find with which I've turned to the list - but I'm sure
> that Nabokov says: "Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple
> reason that beauty must die", or words to that effect. Anyone who knows
> where - I'm pretty sure it's not in Strong Opinions - will win my undying
> gratitude, unless they also found the "beauty plus pity" quotation for me,
> in which case I'm in trouble.
>
> Intro: I am an amateurish Nabokovian currently in the final year of an
> English Degree, and the final twenty-four hours of a dissertation on
> Nabokov.
>
> Yours,
> Nick.
>
> end
> :::nmg20@hermes.cam.ac.uk:::01223 561402:::0958 714062::::::
It's on the first page of his lecture on Kafka's "Metamorphosis," _Lectures
on Literature_
Mike Suh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Galya Diment [SMTP:galya@u.washington.edu]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 5:00 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Beauty and Pity
>
> From: Nick Grundy <nmg20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
>
> Sorry to bother you all with this - and sorry also that it's the second
> quotation I can't find with which I've turned to the list - but I'm sure
> that Nabokov says: "Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple
> reason that beauty must die", or words to that effect. Anyone who knows
> where - I'm pretty sure it's not in Strong Opinions - will win my undying
> gratitude, unless they also found the "beauty plus pity" quotation for me,
> in which case I'm in trouble.
>
> Intro: I am an amateurish Nabokovian currently in the final year of an
> English Degree, and the final twenty-four hours of a dissertation on
> Nabokov.
>
> Yours,
> Nick.
>
> end
> :::nmg20@hermes.cam.ac.uk:::01223 561402:::0958 714062::::::