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...readers who are devoted to Nabokov (I'm one), The Original of Laura affords its own ecstasies. It comes at you as a reprieve, a final appearance from an old friend you thought was already gone for good. It's a shambles, a heap of shards, but they're Nabokov's shards and no one else's: the "nasty compassion" the partygoers direct at a drunken Flora; the "alien creams" Flora spots in someone else's bathroom (recalling the "solemn pool of alien urine" deposited by Mr. Taxovich in another bathroom in Lolita); the playful half-rhyme of belie...
Initiates to the Isis Club, the last of the female final clubs to do ridiculous shit around campus, danced outside the Science Center today around noon. The ladies braved the rain—navy blazers and all—to perform for a crowd that consisted of a handful of tourists, bemused students, and a smattering of other final club members...
Moriarty let a one-timer fly in the first five minutes of the final frame, securing his second goal of the game. But Dartmouth bounced back with another pair of goals...
Eliot House Masters Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted announced their intention to step down as heads of the Eliot household in June after ten years at the helm in a Thanksgiving Day letter--uhh, narrative?--to the House. (The missive was a quarter of the required length of the final paper this FlyBy correspondent is currently attempting to write. And substantially more entertaining...
Having sufficiently flattered Eliot, Pertile makes one final demand: "we must win all the crew races once more, we must keep the Cup and bring back the Plate, too. Will you help...