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[crowleycrow]

The old, old question of Who are you? to one's own self grown strangely evasive
in the gloaming, and to God's world around to which one has never been really
introduced. Reading "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" for reasons that will be clear when my Harper's essay-after-next (November) appears.  It's the best example I know -- there are many -- of

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I hate anonymous

[anonymous]

Gloaming as a word needs to come back. As it is we only used it when singing "Roamin In the Gloamin'"
"And now the Gloaming News with Diane Sawyer."

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[crowleycrow]

THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.

Every pine and fir and hemlock 5
Wore ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
Was ridged inch deep with pearl... Etc etc James Russell Lowell, a once well known poem (at least myfather knew the first stanza, and would quote it whenever it snowed.)

Turning turtles

[anonymous]

Two chapters into it. Thank you. Why did I not know about this book? I see the critic and the clever critical child. Loving it and so I am wondering yet again why the only Nabokov taught in school, that dreadfully self-fulfilling prophecy of child abuse, is Lolita?

I look forward with interest to your review. I will continue reading.

So far it is Borges all the way down.

Anne

not novels, but incandenza pere's filmography (described in the endnotes)...

[anonymous]

...contains most of infinite jest's plot.