There are events, strange happenings, that strikeThe mind as emblematic. They are likeLost similes adrift without a string.Attached to nothing. Thus that northern king, Whose desperate escape from prison wasBrought off successfully only because Some forty of his followers that nightImpersonated him and aped his flight -
-Vladimir Nabokov
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