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Tag Archives: vladimir nabokov
Just a few short, but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s chance keyboard error is: President Chump. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 366. I’m sorry I’m late, but I found that my results were skewed. A single overheard remark: ‘I’m physically in debt Barry…’ ‘Are … Continue reading
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The lady on the bus…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov‘s novel Despair (1965 version), a sort of ‘murder mystery’: He fed in a businesslike and very disgusting manner. His method of dealing with poached eggs was to give the yolk … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, back of head, colour, cropping photographs, Despair novel, ear lobe, hues and tints, observations, on the bus, photography, poached egg, prose, serendipity, style, surrealism, transportation, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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I think I’ll call it ‘A grand view of the river’…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov‘s 1935-1965 novel Despair: The train glided off. Beaming and bawling, Ardalion (drunk) all but tumbled out of the window. Lydia, a lamb in leopard’s clothes, trotted alongside the carriage almost … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropomorphise, Ardalion, arts, colour, Despair novel, discovery, England swings like a..., history, Hull Mud, observations, photography, River Hull UK, serendipity, settee, sofa, swinging area, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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Some snatches of overheard and misheard cafe conversation…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov‘s 1937-40 novel Despair: And those pines facing me, with their bark resembling reddish snakeskin drawn on tight, and their green fur which the wind was stroking the wrong way; and … Continue reading
Posted in books, brain, cafe, conversation, cool, drama, dreaming, Hull.UK., humour, information, misheard, overheard, people, poetry, reading, serendipity, sex, words, writing
Tagged arts, big bear, chule, conversation, Despair novel, dictionary word, madness, misheard, overheard, poetry, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, tiger-land, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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Some song lyrics misheard over the cafe hubbub…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s short story Spring in Fialta (First version in Russian 1931): I had come on the Capparabella express, which, with that reckless gusto peculiar to trains in mountainous country, had done … Continue reading
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Tagged 1931, arts, cafe song lyrics, dictionary word, discovery, high trouble, history, I'm an ape, Li-Lo, madness, misheard, music, observations, poetry, pouting, serendipity, Spring in Fialta, surrealism, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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Hot with both ends missing…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation if from Vladimir Nabokov‘s short story A Russian Beauty (1934): Well, then, in 1919 we have a grown up young lady, with a pale broad face that overdid things in terms of the regularity … Continue reading
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Tagged 1934, A Russian Beauty, arts, ciggy, conversation, dictionary word, glottal stop, instruction, misheard, northern accent, observations, pronunciation, regional accents, style, truncated honk, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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And so justice is served…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov‘s short story The Circle (1936): The pinewood piles cast concertina-shaped reflections that wound and unwound on the water. Gurgling and smacking sounds came from under the rotten planks of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1936, big hats indoors, canted camera, crime scene, DNA evidence, exploitative and gory, history, poetry, surrealism, TV, TV crime, TV Forensics, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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