Friday, December 30, 2005

5 on a Joyride

Oughtie Aviva Biel-Gott brings our attention to a mundane sentence from Nabokov's Pnin:

"When Joan with a bagful of provisions, two magazines, and three
parcels, came home at a quarter past five, she found in the porch
mailbox a special-delivery air-mail from her daughter."

...or is it mundane?

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