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Nabokov's sandwiches . . .
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Hello all,
there is something obscurely ludicrous about this "flask of milk and a few
sandwiches". I don't know if it should be read as parodic, but VN does seem to
be attentive to the self-romanticizing of picnickers; it was explicit in Pale
Fire: the farmers' "fairy-tale meal of bread and cheese" (fn. to line 149). Any
more examples of such precious lunches?
may you all evade the lightning this Spring,
Abraham Adams
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there is something obscurely ludicrous about this "flask of milk and a few
sandwiches". I don't know if it should be read as parodic, but VN does seem to
be attentive to the self-romanticizing of picnickers; it was explicit in Pale
Fire: the farmers' "fairy-tale meal of bread and cheese" (fn. to line 149). Any
more examples of such precious lunches?
may you all evade the lightning this Spring,
Abraham Adams
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