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''Vladimir Nabokov's Comic Quest fo
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Abstract Nabokov once said that "re
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Introduction
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-2- granting that the Bolshevist an
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-4- consent, was motivated by the a
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-6- on the aspects of life that int
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-8- importance but its art, only it
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- 10 - of. the novels, consist in t
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- 12 - life with its hazards and in
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- 14 - lives of individual persons,
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- 16 - is convinced to really know
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- 18 - hopeless, but Nabokov does n
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- 20 - for the artist, is expressed
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- 22 - a new, wholly artistic reali
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- 24 - way, and this knowledge and
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- 26 - internal evidence of Invitat
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- 28 - Admittedly not all of Naboko
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- 30 - "tr. ue reality" in that it
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- 32 - the manner in which the subj
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- 34 - The case is quite similar in
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- 36 - lines of play 11120 will in
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- 38 - him knowledge surpassing tha
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- 40 - the present. This act of rec
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- 42 - design in the life of Martin
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- 44 - Martin's mother of her son's
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- 46 - is blind where his wife and
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- 48 - serious and profound experie
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I. The Eye Pnin Lolita; Laughter*in
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- 51 - novel. They illustrate how p
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- 53 - tearing the banknote into li
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- 55 - have before: after the suici
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- 57 - imagination of Gretchen best
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- 59 - deed been through an experie
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- 61 - there must be some "model" a
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- 63 - P NI N In their appreciation
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- 65 - For the sake of convenience
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- 67 - Pnin's appearance is comic,
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- 69 - all-the time. He suffers an
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- 71 - existence" (13). In his pres
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- 73 - is going to give, on his per
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- 75 - exist in such big sea" (60).
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- 77 - directly from Pnin's peculia
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- 79 - them at least 10ok like his
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- 81 - indeed only the very thinnes
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- 83 - but the group of academics w
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- 85 - "schools and trends", and is
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- 87 - which induces the reader to
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- 89 - and-smiles at, there emerges
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- 91 - More depth and reality are a
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- 93 - cp. 180). The narrator also
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95 - being accurate in every point,
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- 97 - standing of a "truly human b
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- 99 - eternal beauty, and his conv
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- 101 - One luckless early critic w
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- 103 - says "well-read" Humbert Hu
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- 105 - surface, into the initial m
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- 107 - age. She was the "initial g
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- 109 - and implies in the parody t
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- 111 - He is equally inaccurate in
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- 113 - with Quilty; and, of course
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- 115 - or to hold her on his knee
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- 117 - ations ) (98). And he descr
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- 119 - a strident, harsh high voic
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- 121 - When Humbert talks of his d
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- 123 -- could victimize her poor d
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- 125 - this twelve-year-old girl s
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- 127 - done her morning duty" (161
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- 129 - experience, up to a certain
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- 131 - her: "... -a life full of t
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- 133 - Looking at it for a moment
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- 135 - and Axel Rex delightful. Bu
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- 137 - critics have made her, and
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- 139 - not record images of the sy
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- 141 - ous hallucination" (287). 6
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- 143 - No hereafter is acceptable
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- 145 - be possible for him to be t
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- 147 - and it is also appropriate
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- 149 - But Humbert's view of Lolit
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- 151 - the truth of the theory dev
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- 153 - part of it. Even with the i
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- 155 - THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN
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- 157. - consistent set of characte
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- 159 - gathered from various sourc
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- 161 - a very close one, and it se
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- 163 - tiously follows all the mov
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- 165 - go about it), behaving as i
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- 167 - infinite trouble what he co
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- 169 - What were the things that r
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- 171 share", as a good biographer
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- 173 - seems to him too colourless
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175 - parody of what Stegner calls
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- 177 - that lead to it, he is sing
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- 179 - the time during which he li
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- 181 - France. He is tormented by
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- 183 - on the last page of the nov
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- 185 - what he wants to find, that
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- 187 - would not see him. Somewhat
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- 189 - he falls back on passages f
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- 191 - ticism as one possible way
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- 193 - The passages betray not onl
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- 195 - This "mental jerk" grants k
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- 197 - clear, and the harmony and
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- 199 - initiated the insight. In l
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- 201 - himself, and in it V appear
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- 203 - novels of Sebastian Knight,
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- 205 - All those that knew Sebasti
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- 207 - in his opinion not have for
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- 209 - others as his remoteness an
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- 210 - THEDEFENCE R. H. W. Dillard
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- 212 - his own future, and it beco
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- 214 - Unlike Shade, however, Luzh
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- 216 - has recognized as the basic
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- 218 - The sensitive reader dislik
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- 220 - The individual parts have p
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- 222 - for the overall comic effec
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- 224 - Americans of today. "24 He
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- 226 - learn anything, to wrap it
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- 228 - exhausted. Kinbote uses it
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- 230 - (24-25). He talks about how
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- 232 - "Parents" (1,71), "my bedro
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- 234 - commentary, and they also o
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- 236 - forbidden knowledge of whic
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- 238 - than he thought it was46: B
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- 240 - following the road of its r
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- 242 - actually sees Kinbote, lose
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- 244 - emerges that the man whom h
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- 246 - sions, shows that even the
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- 248 - superficially is about. He
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- 250 - "really" Kinbote who has wr
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- 252 - standing' of the poem do no
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- 254 - Shade mentions a famous fil
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- 256 - is left-handed (180) and he
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- 258 - The sea's a thief, whose li
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- 262 - In the relationship between
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- 264 - even for his own death. It
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- 266 - TRANSPARENT THINGS An old N
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- 268 - the name as if it were simp
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- 270- Armande that has brought him
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- 272 - a conscious effort. Things
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- 274 - intention either to convey
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- 276 - past with utmost precision
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- 278 - Hugh Person ignores a vague
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- 280 - the wall which in his wakin
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- 282 - thus opening the view into
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- 284 - tain moments he positively
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- 286 - We thought that he had in h
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- 288 - The thought throws more lig
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- 290 - That Nabokov does consider
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- 292 - which strangely prefigures
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- 294 - become no doubt a new bible
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- 298 - DESPAIR Despair1, though wr
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- 300 - rendering a certain sound t
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- 302 - I have grown much too used
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- 304 - dimensions of artistic crea
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- 306 - when he starts writing his
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- 308 - in its capability of photog
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- 310- next morning, none would bel
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- 312 - To the end, then, he remain
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- 314 - tangible double of himself,
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- 316 - this attack of his second s
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- 318 - ... the ruddy horror of my
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- 320 - only a limited number of su
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- 321 - BENDSINISTER INVITATIONTOAB
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- 323 - the Dark Comedies of the Tw
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- 325 - and that one has first to p
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- 327 - the absurd fate he himself
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- 329 - perhaps in some archaic let
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- 331 - this fantasy with bits of L
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- 333 - in the solution it offers.
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- 335 - no more than the strange an
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- 337 - clown (IB, 104-105). And th
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- 339 - of the original still shine
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- 341 - each of them. There is Mart
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- 343 - "cleared his throat and sof
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- 345 - and then perhaps we shall s
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- 347 - our own world , and with it
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- 349 - the river we see him fishin
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- 351 - inspired by a picture on wh
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- 353 - do not conceal them must di
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- 357 - (IB, 26) and only his doubl
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- 461 - NOTESTOTRANSPARENTTHINGS 1
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- 463 - NOTES to DESPAIR 1 . Vladim
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- 465 - N0TES to BEND SINISTER and
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- 471 - 71 Op. cit., pp. 147-148. 7
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