A number of tiny errors, typographic and even grammatical, had crept into Nabokov’s text. I had the copy set twice in print, my version and his, and sent them both by overnight express. He wired back, “your version perfect”.- Edmund White, in the TLS
Friday, 19 August 2016
Delicacy
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 136
Not sure what made me listen to this. I thought I'd clarified, also, that this was the first book in the series - but apparently not. Possibly not even the whole bloody second book, either.
Not that it matters. I won't be listening to any more. Nothing but an endless exercise in 'style'.
Sunday, 26 June 2016
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Monday, 30 May 2016
Sunday, 15 May 2016
Friday, 13 May 2016
Thursday, 12 May 2016
Dostoevsky v pornography (Afghanistan edition)
Porn is prevalent, more prevalent than Dostoevsky.- Dan Clements, in The Times
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Monday, 2 May 2016
Frankly...
'The publisher of this book wishes me to vouch for the writer of this book who is a friend of mine in order to utilise whatever celebrity kudos the writer of this quote, i.e. me, has left in order to advance the sales of this book. That has been duly done now in the form of this quote. I am sure the book is very good though I cannot remember what it is called or whether I have read it. I've read lots of his stuff and it;s always good and I am in no way biased.'
- Thom Yorke, middle-aged father of two[on Stanley Donwood's Humor]
Friday, 29 April 2016
Books I've actually finished lately: 127
[S]pecialists possess the tremendous stupidity of the force of gravity.- Friedrich Nietzsche (according to Geoff Dyer)
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Friday, 8 April 2016
The nostrils of the poet
The cinnamon has, unfortunately, no smell at all, but to the nostrils of the poet.- The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, on Robert Percival's An Account of the Island of Ceylon (etc.)
Thursday, 31 March 2016
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