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...translating the machine-tooled commonplaces of U.S. life into a surreal landscape of fantasy, a kind of Poe-like, gadget-haunted region of Weir. Thus a soda-fountain stool violently revolves into a "tall mushroom," a newly screwed-in electric bulb lights up with "the hideous instancy of a dragon's egg hatching in one's bare hand." It is the strength of Nabokov's imagination that makes the characters in these stories live. It is the weakness of his characters that they can live only in their imaginations...
...British gold sovereigns that bore on their reverse side the figure of St. George on horseback slaying the dragon...
...what one contemporary called "a sweet contest of nature and of man," Murano's craftsmen reached their greatest peak as they learned to twist glass into all manner of sizes and shapes. At its best, as in the dragon stem goblet (opposite), the Venetian artists managed to capture the same excitement in movement and space that held Tinoretto entranced. This Venetian love of bravura effects reached a flamboyant finale just before the development of heavy potash glass in Germany and lead glass in England broke Venice's near monopoly. Glass blowers made wine goblets in the forms...
...issued a stern caveat to a hot property, sometime lavender-haired Cineminx Kim Novak: no more would she see her yacht-bounding buddy, General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. La Novak, sighing loudly enough for even the most quote-weary columnist to hear clearly, sounded like a damsel in the dragon's clutch: "I don't know whether I'll ever see him again. Now that he's been painted as a villain, it has spoiled everything. We had a beautiful friendship. He was so interesting and nice...
...different from a hundred other stories of men in war and women in love-except perhaps in the finesse of the witty and suspenseful writing and editing. But just beneath the surface can be glimpsed the glinting corpus of a hero myth-the story of the fight with a dragon, the release of a captive, the awakening of a sleeping beauty. And in its depths the narrative circles down through an abyss of symbols to the first and final circle of reality in which heaven and hell, good and evil, life and death go round together blindly in the mystery...