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Reach me, Trim, that book from off the scrutoir: — it has oft-times been in my mind, continued my father, to have read it over both to you, Yorick, and to my brother
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Reach me, Trim, that book from off the scrutoir: — it has oft-times been in my mind, continued my father, to have read it over both to you, Yorick, and to my brother
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"Do you remember Grandmother's scrutoir between the globe and the gueridon? In the library?"
"I don't even know what a scrutoir is; and I do not visualize the gueridon."
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 4, 2008