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Thurgus the Turgid. Nabokov, of course, does this sort of turn spectacularly well. Solemnly the lardwit betrays himself, reporting that Shade's friendship "was the more precious for its tenderness being intentionally concealed." But as the reader reads Kinbote's line-by-line commentary on the poem, he sees that the annotator is afflicted with something more than boobery. Sanely or not, Kinbote has it firmly in his head that he is the deposed king of "a distant northern land" called Zembla, and that he was known to his adoring subjects as Charles the Beloved, son of Alfin...
...saints Reader Carson mentions were African, but it is not possible to clearly establish their race...
...Churchill has got plenty of property investments in France, particularly along the coasts-it's a sure thing you're not going to see any armies landing there." In the end, the reader knows a lot about Maria Light. She works in a bakery shop, then in a pawnshop on Mechanic Avenue run by a 70-year-old sex fiend who tries to buy her body for $10 and failing, proposes marriage. She faithfully supports her invalid father-in-law. She longs for a man in bed with her but rejects one after another because they...
...often accused of being bland or evasive, and if we have a preference for speaking directly, so do our readers. The letters we get, as indicated by the selection we publish each week, are never lacking in forthrightness. "Brickbats for your biased baloney," begins one. And there is no reader so scornful as one whose favorite section got left out one week ("Man can't live by gluten bread alone. Where's the Art section...
...readers seem to feel a democratic possessiveness about our Letters column. After President Kennedy's set-to with steel, we reported that his action had been popular in the nation. But not, it turned out, with our readers. A reader demanded to know whether the letters we selected to run correctly reflected the ratio of letters we received. When we noted that our mail ran 5 to 1 against Kennedy, an eager reader protested that to judge by the Letters column, readers were 8 to 1 against! Such adding-machine impartiality is not our criterion in picking publishable letters...