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Help is needed -- please respond both to Carmela Cangialosi --
carmela.cangialosi@ny.ddbn.com -- and to the list. I am sure we all
recognize the quote since it's rather famous -- but I cannot place it
right away. GD
On 10 May 1999, Carmela Cangialosi wrote:
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> I am a corporate librarian and I am trying to locate the source of a
Nabokov quotation that our chairman is using in a speech.
>
> This is the quote we want to find:
>
> Let us bless the freak; for in the natural order of things, the ape
> would perhaps never have become man had not a freak appeared in the
> family. Anybody whose mind is proud enough not to breed true, secretly
> carries a bomb at the back of his brain; and so I suggest, just for
> the fun of the thing, taking that private bomb and carefully dropping
> it upon the model city of commonsense.
>
>
> My address is:
> carmela.cangialosi@ny.ddb.com
>
>
> I would appreciate any help you can give me.
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>
>
> Thanks,
> Carmela Cangialosi
>
>
carmela.cangialosi@ny.ddbn.com -- and to the list. I am sure we all
recognize the quote since it's rather famous -- but I cannot place it
right away. GD
On 10 May 1999, Carmela Cangialosi wrote:
>
> I am a corporate librarian and I am trying to locate the source of a
Nabokov quotation that our chairman is using in a speech.
>
> This is the quote we want to find:
>
> Let us bless the freak; for in the natural order of things, the ape
> would perhaps never have become man had not a freak appeared in the
> family. Anybody whose mind is proud enough not to breed true, secretly
> carries a bomb at the back of his brain; and so I suggest, just for
> the fun of the thing, taking that private bomb and carefully dropping
> it upon the model city of commonsense.
>
>
> My address is:
> carmela.cangialosi@ny.ddb.com
>
>
> I would appreciate any help you can give me.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Carmela Cangialosi
>
>