Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0003941, Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:06:15 -0700

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Re: Beauty and Pity (fwd)
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From: "Suh, Michael (M&C)" <MSuh@exchange.ML.com>

It's on the first page of his lecture on Kafka's "Metamorphosis," _Lectures
on Literature_

Mike Suh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Galya Diment [SMTP:galya@u.washington.edu]
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> Subject: Beauty and Pity
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> From: Nick Grundy <nmg20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
>
> Sorry to bother you all with this - and sorry also that it's the second
> quotation I can't find with which I've turned to the list - but I'm sure
> that Nabokov says: "Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple
> reason that beauty must die", or words to that effect. Anyone who knows
> where - I'm pretty sure it's not in Strong Opinions - will win my undying
> gratitude, unless they also found the "beauty plus pity" quotation for me,
> in which case I'm in trouble.
>
> Intro: I am an amateurish Nabokovian currently in the final year of an
> English Degree, and the final twenty-four hours of a dissertation on
> Nabokov.
>
> Yours,
> Nick.
>
> end
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