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...novel “Pnin,” Vladimir Nabokov—no stranger to “lexical commingling”—persistently described the title character in a series of epithets (“polite Pnin,” “brave Pnin?? etc). Alexander’s narrator has a similar obsession for self-characterization. “Subnormal,” “heteromorphic,” “perpetual like Assyrian cups,” “not like Odysseus” or Vasco da Gama...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Epic Poem Wanting Ambition | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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