deliverance
"The pale fire on the water was not subject to the current, and this seemed wonderful to me."
- Thanks to Aimee Morgan for providing this reference.
- In all fairness, "pale fire" can allude to either Nabokov or to the original source of the phrase, Shakespeare ("The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction / Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, / And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...", Timon of Athens), or it can be a coincidence. Still, Dickey is a good writer and a great poet, and I've already included a similar quote for Updike's Toward the End of Time, so I think it's a good entry for Nabokovilia.
- More information on James Dickey. (Free registration to The New York Times required.)
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