As if the coincidences of happening upon the Michael Chabon and Goat Rope quotes and posts on Moby Dick weren't enough (see my previous posts this week), I just opened another of my favorite blogs, About Last Night, by Terry Teachout (Wall Street Journal arts critic). At the top level, I find a great Nabakov quote about the deceptive nature of simplicity, and how great writers are complex.
Who does he cite as one of two examples? Take thee a guess, my hearty!
And ahoy, Cabrero! The other example is Tolstoy. Not quite Fyodor, but practically his cousin, eh?
Talk about intertextuality... phew. Again -- everything's connected.
Now, before this blog gets so danged self-referential you can't read it, I better get to generating some real content.
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Re Tolstoy. W&P was awesome, but I was ready for A.K. to have that meetup with the train hundreds of pages before it finally happened.
Moby moment:
"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
Cabrero, I only know a bit about W&P; I haven't had the guts to tackle that just yet!
Moby moments are so plentiful! How about:
"That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate."
The man had a way with bold statements, eh?
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