“Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The cloudy envelope of a goddess
“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like
the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
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