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Saturday, March 29, 2025

The White Whale: A BotchuLit

Call me Ishmael, 
a clam shlemiel --  
as opposed to, say, a mussel shlimazel 
(though neither's a kosher meal). 

   -- Ulysses Poe and Herman Melville

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

Lolita, light of my life...  ...might fail to yell "Foil!"...  ...or opt to yell "Epee!" -- she's just that unpredic...