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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] [Fwd: quotation search]
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:18:32 +0200
From: Ole Nyegaard <liton@hum.au.dk>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
CC: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
References: <44DD440F.4090106@utk.edu>

Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> den 12. august 2006
kl. 04:59 +0100 skrev:
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>I feel certain that I have read VN or VN character compare his art to  
>a man rearranging the objects on a table, but can't seem to put my  
>hand on it.  Could someone guide my groping?  Thanks, Jamie
>

A suggestion:
"I have always been indifferent to social problems, merely using the
material that happened to be near, as a voluble diner pencils a street
corner on the table cloth or arranges a crum and two olives in a
diagrammatic position between menu and salt cellar." (the "Foreword," to
The Eye, p 8 in the Penguin ed.).

best,
Ole Nyegaard, Aarhus, Denmark 


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