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Eat butterflies with me?
- neonate 6y agohttps://archive.is/lvkuW https://archive.is/lvkuW
- cafard 6y agoMost interesting, and I suppose I'll get a copy. Thanks for posting this, and particularly the paywall bypass.
- goatcode 6y agoI'm 12 years old and what is this?
- gumby 6y agoIt is a book review
- spookybones 6y agoMaybe it’s me, but Nabokov becomes increasingly cringeworthy as I get older.
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- Deely123123 6y agoCould you tell us more? This happened only with Nabokov or other writers became cringeworthy too?
- spookybones 6y agoJust him. It’s a mixture of his alliterate precious prose, narcissism, and droll humor that rarely makes me laugh.
- croissants 6y agoIf you like this kind of article, written by this author, she did it for Updike too: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n19/patricia-lockwood/malfunctioning-sex-robot https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n19/patricia-lockwood/ma...
- asciimo 6y ago> I was hired as an assassin. You don’t bring in a 37-year-old woman to review John Updike in the year of our Lord 2019 unless you’re hoping to see blood on the ceiling. I'm hooked already.
- cafard 6y agoFlorence King was briefer in the essay "Phallus in Wonderland": "Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors." (Poorhouse Fair) Or "Having read detailed descriptions of approximately six bushels of pubic hair, nameless forces drove me to go seeking and questing through my kitchen drawer to gather up all the Twisties I've saved and arrange them by color."