Friday, December 07, 2012
Scholia
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Pnin (1957), Chapter VI, Part 1:
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Again in the margins of library books earnest freshmen inscribed such helpful glosses as "Description of Nature", or "Irony"; and in a pretty edition of Mallarmé's poems an especially able scholiast had already underlined in violet ink the difficult word oiseaux and scrawled above it "birds".
