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Somehow I ended up reading To the Lighthouse again. It's beautiful.

The jury's still out on this one to my way of thinking. I'll be wanting to wait until I've read as many of his works as you all have -- plus, I think I'll want to read Vera again. Then I'll have an opinion, maybe. And then, of course, a seance might be in order. I'm just more of a cynic...

Well, yes -- Fabio is a very happy thought indeed -- but can he discuss Nabokov, do you think? :D

Ya think that maybe Real Great Idea may have been having just a small joke with us, pontalba? ;) .Harlequins

Um, could I request that ya'll quit pounding on the bathroom door? I've decided to stay in here where it's safe. I just now remembered that only two or three people actually survived the last forum party. Still, thinkin' that maybe she's been to one party too many

Still, having spilled her whatever-that-was-she-was-attempting-to-eat-there, and having accidentally slopped her second martini about just a tiny bit, has taken up the ice bucket, along with her capacious handbag -- without which elegant object she is rarely seen -- and has quietly retired to...

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I guess it wasn't feeling like an ending to me, and then Blam! And even then I couldn't really quite tell what had happened. Maybe I have to read the last few pages again. I suspect that I should read all of Part Seven again. I haven't read Speak, Memory yet, so the only two "you"s I could...

Who was that (hic) sitting between us at the (hic) table? :o

Give me time enough to swill a coupla Tanqueray martis and I'll believe you when you tell me that you arrived with a full six pack. :D Here's Dorothy Parker's -- uh oh, have I started quoting Dorothy Parker already? That's a bad sign. Parker Oops -- sorry, muggle!

That actually pretty much describes my own reaction to the ending. Obviously VN was writing for his "first reader". I kinda suspected that to be the case, but he took me by surprise anyway by the simple act of making her exactly young enough to be his daughter. :rolleyes:

He who steals my thunder steals ... trivia

Gem got the 10% discount for six -- she just drank one of them on the way over. Somebody feed her a loaf of bread. :D

I'm looking forward to rereading it myself. I know and love all of those people. :D In 'real' life. :D

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Flat out flummoxed and flabbergasted, Peder. Also amazed, astonished, staggered, nonplussed, confounded; perplexed, confused and mystified. But almost ready for more. :D Almost.

I'm thinking that I'll need a good dose of Virginia Woolf first though. You are just such a romantic, pontalba. And you too, Peder. You're both pushovers when it comes to a love story, and expecially when it is about these particular Russians.

After we get back all of the RSVPs we'll get muggle to figure out the seating at the dinner table. (I think Stewart and I will just have to get drunk and make up.) :D

That kinda sums it up I guess. How worse could it get?

Here is a man who will tell us in one sentence what shape a rubber band forms when it is dropped to the tabletop, and who will then leave us with these words as the ending to his novel? I'm pounding my head on my desk here. He's completely merciless, I tell you. (I wish I could say that in...