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QUIZ: Wherefrom were these lines extracted?
"An acrobat, I swing from wisp to wisp. Newman's iridescent cobwebs crush in my hands. Pascal's blackboard mathematics are erased by a passing shoulder. The cave drawings, astoudingly vital by candlelight, of those aboriginal magicians, Paul and Augustine, in daylight fade...Each of our bodies is a clock that loses time...I wake and ..feel my death rushing towards me like an express train... A girl... wearing a knit suit striped horizontally with green, purple and brown, walks slowly, carefully, puzzled by the dawn enveloping her... a trio of flat-stomached nymphs parades...The vivacious redhead, freckled and white-footed...the solemn brunette, transporting the vase of herself with held breath; the dimpled blonde..."
(a) V. Nabokov : "Lolita";
(b) V. Nabokov: "Speak Memory"
(c) V. Nabokov :"Dar"
(d) V.Nabokov: Collected Stories
(e) None of the choices listed above. The correct answer is ....
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"An acrobat, I swing from wisp to wisp. Newman's iridescent cobwebs crush in my hands. Pascal's blackboard mathematics are erased by a passing shoulder. The cave drawings, astoudingly vital by candlelight, of those aboriginal magicians, Paul and Augustine, in daylight fade...Each of our bodies is a clock that loses time...I wake and ..feel my death rushing towards me like an express train... A girl... wearing a knit suit striped horizontally with green, purple and brown, walks slowly, carefully, puzzled by the dawn enveloping her... a trio of flat-stomached nymphs parades...The vivacious redhead, freckled and white-footed...the solemn brunette, transporting the vase of herself with held breath; the dimpled blonde..."
(a) V. Nabokov : "Lolita";
(b) V. Nabokov: "Speak Memory"
(c) V. Nabokov :"Dar"
(d) V.Nabokov: Collected Stories
(e) None of the choices listed above. The correct answer is ....
- Jansy Mello
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