“First of all, dismiss ideas, and social background, and train the freshman to shiver, to get drunk on the poetry of Hamlet or Lear, to read with his spine and not with his skull.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“First of all, dismiss ideas, and social background, and train the freshman to shiver, to get drunk on the poetry of Hamlet or Lear, to read with his spine and not with his skull.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
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