Saturday, December 30, 2023

 "Words can be tiresome as a swarm of insects. They can prick and buzz. Words can be no more than a series of farts; or on the other hand they can be adamantine, obdurate, inviolable, stone upon stone"

Muzzlehatch, in Titus Alone, by Mervyn Peake


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Nabokov on music

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