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Well, no great mystery; the caprifole stanza continues botanically: "Downward a leaf inclines its tip/ and drops from its tip a pearl." It is clear that Nabokov is describing a rain-wet shrub, but has his own good reasons for leaving indefinite precisely which shrub. It is as if he had written of a cavalryman saddling his ungulate (horse? cow? moose?) and riding away...
...next degree of liability in this downward spiral applies to a gratuitous invitee, who qualifies as a guest and not a trespasser. The slightest degree of liability is that due a trespasser on private property...
...While the idea once seemed willfully eccentric, a number of Harvard graduates are going into manual trades or becoming clerks or driving cabs-doing anything to grasp that "real life" from which they feel culturally separated. Against the traditional American grain, at least some are choosing downward mobility...
...findings on tests with a special sled, ten typical snowmobile seats and a 225-lb. dummy fitted with stress-sensing instruments. When the sled with its seated dummy was dropped 4 ft. onto a concrete platform-the equivalent of a jump in a fast-moving snowmobile-the jolts produced downward forces of 20 to 34 times the force of gravity, enough to make the body weigh anything from 4,500 lbs. to 7,650 lbs. at the instant of impact. Aircraft ejection seats, which are activated by an explosive charge, subject the body to about 13 Gs, while other tests...
...possibilities of the TV camera to work is a simple, musically-accompanied coverage of a pinball game; the camera, inside the machine and on the same level as the ball, catches the action in unique perspective with occasional shots of the agony of defeat on the face of the downward peering player...