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Tag Archives: vladimir nabokov
The strange endpapers…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave – which, aha! I have just finished re-reading. As I expected, it ended, as with most Russian novels, with misery and madness. Even so, it … Continue reading
Posted in academia, archeology, art, books, composition, creation, design, history, humour, information, puzzle, reading, story, surrealism, writing
Tagged 1928, 1936, airship, art, arts, Aztec mask, dictionary word, dinosaur, discovery, encyclopedia, endpapers, history, junk shop books, King Queen Knave, mucky green, RMS Queen Mary, serendipity, style, surrealism, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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Now listen here, scumbag!…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is another from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave, which I am currently re-reading. I’m nearly at the end now; I’m sure, like all good Russian novels, it’s going to end in misery … Continue reading
Posted in academia, books, brain, cafe, conversation, drama, Dulltown, expletives, Film, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, puzzle, reading, style, swearing, weather, words, writing
Tagged 1928, blackguard, Boris Johnson, celebrities, condom, dictionary word, expletives, film, firearm, history, King Queen Knave, Samuel L Jackson, scumbag, slag, straining liquid, style, sugar refining, threshing, vladimir nabokov, winnowing, words, writing
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Some song lyrics misheard over the cafe hubbub…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave, which I am currently re-reading, and have nearly finished – I feel it’s not going to end well for Dreyer, Franz, and Martha: At the … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, art, books, brain, cafe, cool, Film, history, humour, information, misheard, music, poetry, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, Uncategorized, words, writing
Tagged 1928, arts, black heart lips, dictionary word, fishy eyes, Franz, history, King Queen Knave, madness, misheard, misheard song lyrics, monkey-pen, music, noy-noy, poetry, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, town down, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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More on that lino print idea…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is another from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave, which I am currently re-reading (yes, I am a slow reader): He (Franz) peeped into the room as he passed. Old Enricht, clad only … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, art, books, cafe, composition, creation, design, drawing, humour, information, lino cut printing, lino printing, photography, physics, prints, reading, science, seeing, style, surrealism, words, writing
Tagged 1928, cheval glass, designing, drawing, ellipses, galaxy, history, ideas, King Queen Knave, lino printing, madness, notebook sketch, on the bus, parallel universes, pencil drawing, photography, preliminary drawing, serendipity, shapes, style, surrealism, three dimensional, transportation, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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Just a few short, but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel, King, Queen, Knave, which I am currently re-reading: Martha threw off her orange peignoir, and as she drew back her elbows to adjust a necklace her angelically lovely … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, anaconda, arts, British Prime Minister, captain beefheart and his magic band, celebrities, conversation, history, instruction, King Queen Knave, late, madness, maintain-ance, music, name change, Nick Cave, observations, overheard, poetry, serendipity, sex, spam, style, surrealism, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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The marvelous painting…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is another from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave, which I am currently re-reading: Piffke was burly, dignified, and smartly dressed. He had blond eyelashes, baby-colored skin, a profile that had prudently stopped … Continue reading
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Tagged 1928, advertising, Andy Warhol, art, arts, burger painting, dangerous rides, discovery, fortune tellers, funfair, Hull Fair, King Queen Knave, mystery, observations, painting, photography, Piffke, puzzle, serendipity, style, teapot, trouser creases, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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So, Dave, what was the exhibition like then?…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is another from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel, King, Queen, Knave, which I am currently re-reading. And at every corner, emblem of ineffable happiness, stood a sleek-hosed harlot whose features there was no time to … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, books, brain, creation, Dulltown, existentialism, Grumpiness, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, observations, painting, people, sculpture, seeing, serendipity, words, writing
Tagged 1928, architecture, art, arts, badly designed staircase, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, discovery, harlots, Henry Moore Institute, history, King Queen Knave, Leeds City Art Gallery, observations, sculpture, serendipity, sex, sleek-hosed, style, surrealism, train journey, transportation, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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