‘a tower of yellow ivory’

This is from another short passage in Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov.

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A statue on the north bank of the Clyde
of absence and presence
K13
To call a spade a spade
‘There’s this shadow beside him in the painting’
Published
Glenfruin School house
EPHEMERON [Fig. I]
Dare to be Wise
Farewell
Spelled out in graffiti
Mum’s the word
‘Change is coming’
‘Martin Laird doesn’t do social media’
In the language of Angels
The Crew Ship COLUMBO
Fashion Show
Letters to his gardener
The Owl Man
revolutionary TIME [the language of MUSIC]
the STREET
By late afternoon
Vecchia Bologna
The Well Hoose
Roseneath Peninsula
Rare Species
enablers
BRITAIN’S SIBERIA
Lady Stair’s garden
Where are the notes between the notes?
Thought to be in two places at once
The imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space
umbrellas
Playfair brought light
two poems
EDINburgh ARTS festIVAL
Hospitalfield
Mapping an obsession
K I W A N U K A
Methven Simpson
UPROOTED
We are the Change-Makers
The Dug-Out
Cabbages in an Orchard
bows out
PERMIT to ENTER
Time Passes. Listen. Time Passes
Garden gnomes were heard to shout!
Market instability
Isolation and sleep
Playfair
The only epitaph
black
‘GOOD SPECTACLES’
The beginning of wisdom
REVEL
Full page advert in the BMJ
infinity
reality
the answer
‘Operator’
First do no harm
Ninian’s Gift
Dunblane Cathedral reopens
Don’t let yourself go hungry now
an easier reality
Sunset ower the river Tweed
Afa big wardrobe
‘Another me exists and is wandering loose out in the world’
The gardener of Finca Vigia
“Mother, I’ve seen an angel”
María of My Heart
Passing through walls hurts human beings, they get sick from it
From family he passed to science
taking steps [old and new]
Perhaps I was history itself
a short break in the Borders
A new mural in Glasgow
‘Battle for the Wallace Monument’
Diana Rigg
406 million miles from Earth
the scandal of the century [and other writings]
Full of Energy
Hole Ousia [no longer the same]
Last Monday
The inscriber ran out of room
‘WE AL MUST PAS’
STOBS
19th August 2020
THERE’S MORE
HOME and AWAY
The Ormiston Yew
‘Thanks, friend’
“As It Is, and as It Is To Be”
Can you hear the bumblebees swarm?
In the middle of the Yew
THE SHOP FOR KEEN BUYERS
1929
Hunchback skeleton find
Advertising for Hunchbacks
“Might be seen as . . .”
Only one copy found a purchaser
broken
Perennial in its freshness
BUMP-TIOUS SCIENCE
SHELL petrol: “like a beautiful woman”
“relieves fatigue, aids digestion”
Would you Adam and Eve it?
everyday-in-betweens
Professor Cairo
‘The scientific attitude’
A most ancient place
Prussic Acid
Queen Mary’s Thorn Tree
a letter-carrier
Keep Digging
this film has had ten views
LXVI.8.
‘PLASTOMETER’
Centenarian who could speak seven languages
L. N. E. R. excursions
“A fantastic space for the community and visitors”
BE BRIEF
‘Pink Pills for Pale People’
NOTICE of REMOVAL
M a r a n t z
Yesterday was Tuesday
sanctum
Mr. SELL
‘We’ve really missed you’
A L G O R I T H M
‘NO CAUSE FOR ALARM’
‘Stories we tell ourselves’
rebel ‘outsider’
“rock that is older than thought”
MUNYON’S SEASONAL ADVICE
extraordinarily delicate
messages
Fiction had disrupted reality
a gardening hand
Everything is growing in our garden
Pereunt et Imputantur
so alive
EDITOR
the noo [without end]
but
reaching like a sweet pea for the sun
Doctors’ conflicts of interest
Said the gardener
Peter’s Declaration

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