He starts to shake and cough/ Just like the / old man in / that book by Nabokov
-Sting, in one of his more contrived rhymes

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man rings True, even when talking about things that I've never experienced. I loved the merciful nature of the priest. For some reason I never forgot the snippet when he told the priest he'd sinned sexually:
"With yourself?"
"Yes… and with a woman."

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Picture a naked emperor, marching down the street with his genitals shriveled from the cold. But I figured out it was Quentin, who was talking like a male, except she was a female in the previous chapter. So was some transgender action going on so Quentin could get to Harvard?
PS: Do NOT name a female character Quentin or Dempster...
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