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Note to lines 939-940: "If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece."
Nabokov, you cheeky rascal.
— Mar 29, 2021 09:12PM
Nabokov, you cheeky rascal.
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Wild that I've read something like 50 cumulative pages, but only advanced 7 pages from where I left off. This is a three-bookmark book, and I'm on pages 174, 192, and 260 all at once.
— Mar 25, 2021 07:56AM
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This book is a lot of immersive fun. Like House of Leaves and other texts that play with footnotes, it's difficult to track my actual progress since it's nonlinear. But I feel like a detective, ferreting out clues and following leads. Wheee, the game is afoot!
— Mar 18, 2021 07:57PM
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Doing it for the scratch-off gold! You gotta make your own fun - but I wonder... would I be as excited to start a new book without a scratchy-scratchy Pavlovian reward to it?
— Mar 17, 2021 11:51AM
Doing it for the scratch-off gold! You gotta make your own fun - but I wonder... would I be as excited to start a new book without a scratchy-scratchy Pavlovian reward to it?
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Do you have the direct quote? I read this years ago. Brilliant as always.
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Sheryl wrote: "Do you have the direct quote? I read this years ago. Brilliant as always."Yes, the lines that note accompanies are:
"Man's life as commentary to abstruse
Unfinished poem. Note for further use."
Which is a fun nesting doll of self-reference.
It's tough to decide which I like more, the poem (which is really really impressive) or the meta commentary from our unhinged narrator.