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Re: Reply to "reality" Query: quotation source, please (fwd)
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>From Tim Henderson (thenders@mail.lanline.com):
a quick search in AltaVista on nabokov, reality and quotation marks
turns up the following--
This from Chapter 24 of Transparent Things:
We have shown our need for quotation marks ("reality,"
"dream").
not germane but hey:
"Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation
marks:
He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you." --Edward Abbey
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Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
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> >From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
>
> John DeMoss's "Index to _Strong Opinions_:"
>
> reality, 10, 79, 94, 118
> and imagination, 154
>
> Might one of these be the passage you seek?
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> At 08:09 AM 5/7/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >From: ptudor@budfin.co.nz
> >
> >I am looking for Nabokov's exact phrase when he said that "reality"
> was
> >the only word that should be in quotation marks. Yes - I should
> remember
> >this (please forgive me, Brian) - but I can't...
> >
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Tim Henderson, Database Manager work: thenders@mail.lanline.com
Gannett Suburban Newspapers home: thomas.henderson@mne.net
1 Gannett Drive (914) 694-5309
White Plains, NY 10604
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>From Tim Henderson (thenders@mail.lanline.com):
a quick search in AltaVista on nabokov, reality and quotation marks
turns up the following--
This from Chapter 24 of Transparent Things:
We have shown our need for quotation marks ("reality,"
"dream").
not germane but hey:
"Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation
marks:
He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you." --Edward Abbey
%%
Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
> ----
> >From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
>
> John DeMoss's "Index to _Strong Opinions_:"
>
> reality, 10, 79, 94, 118
> and imagination, 154
>
> Might one of these be the passage you seek?
> ---------------------------------------------
> At 08:09 AM 5/7/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >From: ptudor@budfin.co.nz
> >
> >I am looking for Nabokov's exact phrase when he said that "reality"
> was
> >the only word that should be in quotation marks. Yes - I should
> remember
> >this (please forgive me, Brian) - but I can't...
> >
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Tim Henderson, Database Manager work: thenders@mail.lanline.com
Gannett Suburban Newspapers home: thomas.henderson@mne.net
1 Gannett Drive (914) 694-5309
White Plains, NY 10604
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