NABOKOV Vladimir - Pale Fire

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There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known - 170 To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me. There was the day when I began to doubt Man's sanity: How could he live without Knowing for sure what dawn, what death, what doom Awaited consciousness beyond the tomb? And finally there was the sleepless night When I decided to explore and fight The foul, the inadmissible abyss, 180 Devoting all my twisted life to this One task. Today I'm sixty-one. Waxwings Are berry-pecking. A cicada sings. The little scissors I am holding are A dazzling synthesis of sun and star. I stand before the window and I pare My fingernails and vaguely am aware Of certain flinching likenesses: the thumb, Our grocer's son; the index, lean and glum http://www.en8848.com.cn/『原版英语』
College astronomer Starover Blue; 190 The middle fellow, a tall priest I knew; The feminine fourth finger, an old flirt; And little pinky clinging to her skirt. And I make mouths as I snip off the thin Strips of what Aunt Maud used to call "scarf-skin." Maud Shade was eighty when a sudden hush Fell on her life. We saw the angry flush And torsion of paralysis assail Her noble cheek. We moved her to Pinedale, Famed for its sanitarium. There she'd sit 200 In the glassed sun and watch the fly that lit Upon her dress and then upon her wrist. Her mind kept fading in the growing mist. She still could speak. She paused, and groped, and found What seemed at first a serviceable sound, But from adjacent cells impostors took The place of words she needed, and her look Spelt imploration as she sought in vain To reason with the monsters in her brain. What moment in the gradual decay 210 Does resurrection choose? What years? What day? Who has the stopwatch? Who rewinds the tape? http://www.en8848.com.cn/『原版英语』
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the social functions available to m
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A few other items concerning John S
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ut they had lost their top hats to
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The Prince did not heed this rather
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Gradus helping the fire brigade to
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Line 101: No free man needs a God W
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This tremendous company consisted o
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and melancholy clown with a ruff, a
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shoes crammed into the bottom compa
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actions mentally rehearsed before.
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To take a striking example: what ca
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aubles and bits of nacre became mic
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King. "Well, anyway, take off that
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drowned in the Gulf of Surprise. A
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government. When finally captured h
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18). On another trip to the bathroo
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his house, a white flower in his bu
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poltergeist ran out of ideas in con
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course of the last four or five day
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cousins (two guardsmen disguised as
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annals of plot and counterplot anyt
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"Please, go," said poor Bretwit. "I
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This barn, or rather shed, where "c
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words had been slowly spelled out,
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DAUGHTER (exploding) Why must you s
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commented here. Southey liked a roa
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mentioned his eagerness to see Lave
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admirable passage by the much flabb
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part, dreadful outbursts of temper.
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As one watched the light on her fac
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accurately water temperature from c
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general atmosphere of a subtropical
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my terrace after a game of chess, a
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SHADE: Why must one always quote St
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The last syllable of "Tanagra" and
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This describes rather well the "cha
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This line, and indeed the whole pas
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Thy love was far more better than T
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sentimental military duets at event
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polite note congratulating him on h
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Lines 734-735: probably ... wobble
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misprint to tally with Shade's "whi
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oorish of me to refuse playing with
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palace, and crossed the mountains,
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The victim falters and the victor f
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So this is all treacherous old Shad
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He strolled back and paid the equiv
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forced to visit the washroom as soo
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hurriedly fumbling at the car door,
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ut then I noticed he was resting, n
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He had worked for two years as a ma
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"Come along, Jack, we'll put someth
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my tender treasure. Some of my read
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Campbell, Walter, b. 1890, in Glasg
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eport on the work in progress, 238;
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O'Donnell, Sylvia, nee O'Connell, b
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green silk, and carrying a flambeau
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