ju’s Reviews > Pnin > Status Update

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

He asks: 'Are you anarchist?' I answer -- time out on the part of the narrator for a spell of cozy mute mirth -- 'First what do we understand under Anarchism? Anarchism practical, metaphysical, theoretical, mystical, abstractical, individual, social?' [...] So we had a very interesting discussion, in consequence of which I passed two whole weeks on Ellis Island.