three trapped tigers
"There are also awful readers of Borges and others who read Sartre but don't understand him and who read and don't understand Nabokov or even have any feelings for him, he said." "I don't want to deprave you of life but you'll end up like Humbert Humbert started off."
"He almost looked like he was about to imitate Quilty and say, 'Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you desist.' Arsenio Quelty. The theater of Cuélty. A man with Cuélities."
"What you have to do is to go on your way, all quiet and good, to the movies -at least the real women you find there lead you to nowhere more dangerous than a seat in the stalls. They're just usherettes. Although in Switzerland there's this White Russian, several times an exile, who has the idea that even usherettes can lead to disaster."
- Many thanks to the tremendous, terrific Abdella Bouazza for the reference, and for the quotes, and for spotting the Laughter in the Dark bit.
- More information on G. Cabrera Infante.
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