‘a tower of yellow ivory’

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

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“hostility”
as a star fades
“Elusive”
Who is wagging the dogs tail?
safe & effective
The Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
“Latter-day anti-psychiatrists”
“Ten FACTS”
The International Congress [Net Surplus]
art beat
‘odious situation’
Respecting rules
“eat, heat, or on the street”
temporary traffic-lights
a (rain-caused) digression
Peace Pigeons
Peter and Sian’s garden
The [much expanded] ‘Press Office’ of the Society ‘declined’ to comment:
Oh dear, this is not a good sign
bring back that summer
A professor of the past
Living well with dementia
More than 7 years on and little has changed
these COLOURS
‘certain varieties of self-awareness’
all our yesterdays
on the one hand
willed blindness to actuality
an extended dose
Balhary Walled Garden
This one’s from the heart
‘Chumcentric’
vox humana
MELVENS
talent
stravaiging
auditions in PROGRESS
Science Media Centre
a dog named Spot
from ‘Landscape with the fall of Icarus’
Fairyland
The Editor of the Scotsman on VALUES
‘decent standards’
A recent headline
Gascon Ha’
Bridge of Allan gardens
Professor Bertram Copeland Rumfoord
ASK the EXPERTS.
beneath the blue-arched sky
open to IDEAS
The blue sky arched above us
Let creative voices spark a revolution
f a m i l i a r
A change in the weather
Clock Manufacturer, Watchmaker, Optician
Gates restored
Like T-Rex
“OH, THAT STAIN”
STOP. LOOK. LISTEN
‘Flattening of Affect’
Mossgrove garden, Bridge of Allan
more or less
My post-medical landscape
More than a year on . . .
the milk run
Gàirnealachd
wavelengths
off the map
birth of a new sound
a hill, so named
think I’ll go outside
I refuse
some kind of poem
the man with the child in his eyes
Back home
[unsubscribing]
[a little bit of activity]
Candelabra primulas by our pond
French Braid
ELDERLY PEOPLE
“Warning on danger tablets”
‘Darling, you’re pure chemistry’
‘Medical Express’
‘MENTAL CURES BY USE OF DRUGS’
A gateway that was never to be
University of Edinburgh [1956 sketch]
Sources of Power Hall
“Vile on”
my world
a year ago
Peter + Sian
They fell for us
Data Protection: The Royal College of Psychiatrists
R E S T O R A T I O N
The civilised world’s definition of time
Yay!
So the advert says!
green-of-many-colours
‘A story with disease at its heart’
“I know what it is like to be studied”
unlearning things
The paint comes off
Sweet Lemany
Un & Con
The blossomest blossom
GODDAMIT!
The COUNCIL of NEON
Revisiting language that disempowers patients
What am I on this earth for?
“Our family of brands”
Twitter: “all Disco”
“What is it about antidepressants that upsets them so much . . . “
D E F E N D E R
side-by-side [book 4]
NICEly misunderstood
NORTHPOINT
Collective values of an organisation in the era of social media
Absurdly BINARY
The ‘Side by Side’ Series [Book 4]
Our graffiti bench
MHRA [our Medical Watchdog]
wrongdoings
fair and decent people
the world’s scattered edge
Mossgrove garden – Open for charity
Across the country
[Preservers of Ham]
inside O U T
An End of Waiting
‘Their Public Policy Committee’
“Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
Kate’s tulips for Sian
sticks and stones
Case in Point
‘clarification’
I had a project as a small boy
NEON yellow
‘porky pies’
Wheesht
Where frozen tears cause blindness
Lost in a dark tunnel
It’s boom time for the College
The fields of Bow
dazed and changed and happy
Children’s Library
felt madcap and adventurous
“Not a trustworthy source of info on me”
‘The Hate had started.’
‘Everybody’s into one-word titles nowadays’
Outsider art

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