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I am forwarding all the messages even though they give the same source
just to show how many people responded -- and how fast. Thanks to all! GD
From: L.M. Delage-Toriel <lmd24@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
The quotation is from "The Art of Literature and Commonsense", p372 in
LECTURES ON LITERATURE
Lara Delage-Toriel
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Galya Diment wrote:
> 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:
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
>
just to show how many people responded -- and how fast. Thanks to all! GD
From: L.M. Delage-Toriel <lmd24@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
The quotation is from "The Art of Literature and Commonsense", p372 in
LECTURES ON LITERATURE
Lara Delage-Toriel
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Galya Diment wrote:
> 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:
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
>