“If quotations, in their fragmenting force, destroy in advance the texts from which they are not only severed but which they exalt till these texts become nothing but severance, then the fragment without a text, or any context, is radically unquotable.”
—Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster
It is Sunday, and the long-sought link between Nabokov and Snoop Dogg has been found:
“The sun made its usual round of the house as the afternoon ripened into evening. I had a drink. And another. And yet another. Gin and pineapple juice, my favorite mixture, always double my energy.”
—HH, Lolita, 2nd Vintage edition, 1997. Page 72
(to his cellphone):
"I got a little bent out of shape. I brushed it off. Can you brush it off? What difference does it make? What difference does it make? Really think about that. What difference does it make."
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