One finds it hard to decide what Gradus alias Grey wanted more at that minute: discharge his gun or rid himself of the inexhaustible lava in his bowels.
Charles Kinbote, in Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
26 November 2010
22 November 2010
literary quote of the day (11/22/10)
God help me, I trust, to rid myself of any desire to follow the example of two other characters in this work. I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist. I may turn up yet, on another campus, as an old, happy, haealthy, heterosexual Russian, a writer in exile, sans fame, sans future, sans audience, sans anything but his art. I may join forces with Odon in a new motion picture: Escape from Zembla (ball in the palace, bomb in the palace square). I may pander to the simple tastes of theatrical critics and cook up a stage play, an old-fashioned melodrama with three principles: a lunatic who intends to kill an imaginary king, another lunatic who imagines himself to be that king, and a distinguised old poet who stumbles by chance into the line of fire, and perishes in the clash between two figments. Oh, I may do many things!Charles Kinbote, in Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
21 November 2010
literary quote of the day (11/21/10)
"There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings."
Charles Kinbote, in Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
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