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From: Mary Bellino <iambe@javanet.com>
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>Lucy Maddox adduces another passage in Boswells' Life of Johnson:
>"Modern writers," Johnson remarked, "are the moons of literature; they
>shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients." She
>also discusses (besides the obvious similarities between Boswell's Life
>and Pale Fire) the physical resemblance of Shade to Johnson. (Nabokov's
>Novels in English pp. 31 et seqq; the Boswell quote may be found on page
>979 of the Oxford edition.)
>Mary Bellino
>iambe@javanet.com
From: Mary Bellino <iambe@javanet.com>
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>Lucy Maddox adduces another passage in Boswells' Life of Johnson:
>"Modern writers," Johnson remarked, "are the moons of literature; they
>shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients." She
>also discusses (besides the obvious similarities between Boswell's Life
>and Pale Fire) the physical resemblance of Shade to Johnson. (Nabokov's
>Novels in English pp. 31 et seqq; the Boswell quote may be found on page
>979 of the Oxford edition.)
>Mary Bellino
>iambe@javanet.com