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it opens with a poem called pale fire, a poem of 1,000 lines in rhymed couplets. | N | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 800 | Female |
a mad professor charles kinbote. | X | 3.4 | 4 | 3.2 | 800 | Female |
has taken on a deranged attachment to the poet. | X | 4.2 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 800 | Female |
which he means to explicate in his most outlandish way. | S | 4 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 800 | Female |
the first line of the actual poem is "i was the shadow of the waxwing slain-" | N | 4.5 | 4.166667 | 4.333333 | 800 | Female |
"...the mad explicator", kinbote, he opens- | X | 5.4 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 800 | Female |
...his commentary about the waxwing, and then suddenly he shifts to this. | X | 4.6 | 3 | 4 | 800 | Female |
and the revolt and gusto it showed when consuming long, sad- | C | 4.6 | 3 | 4.6 | 800 | Female |
i want to remember. i want you to remember our bringing him- | H | 5 | 4.8 | 4 | 800 | Female |
...mind, nabokov's, brilliant book on- | X | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4 | 800 | Female |
...gogol. it's one of the grandest things ever written by one writer about another. | H | 3.6 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 800 | Female |
[inaudible 00:01:13] nabokov. i haven't made a study of his life. i haven't translated him and i'm not related to him that i'm aware of. | N | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4 | 801 | Male |
and i had been told that it was a dirty book by my friends. and in some ways, of course it is dirty book. | O | 2.8 | 4.2 | 3 | 801 | Male |
lots of things for boys to think about. | X | 2.6 | 3.2 | 2.4 | 801 | Male |
the future holds and how everything will settle. we could only guess. | N | 3.4 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 234 | Female |
this is my second appearance. i was here at christmas 19- | N | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 802 | Male |
i was in the overflow crowd, actually 20, 30 people seated right here, | N | 3.4 | 4 | 3.8 | 802 | Male |
and to begin on a note of jazz and popular culture is quite appropriate. | N | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 802 | Male |
people, journalists, that he shared his april 23rd birthday with shakespeare | N | 4 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 802 | Male |
but i would rather point out that nabokov shares his year of birth, 1899 | N | 3.2 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 802 | Male |
with fred astaire and duke ellington. | N | 3.4 | 4 | 4.4 | 802 | Male |
with extraordinary suddenness. their work can bring us. | N | 2.8 | 4 | 2.8 | 802 | Male |
i invariably render them speechless by saying "he was the most fun to be with of anyone i've ever known. | N | 4 | 4 | 4.8 | 802 | Male |
he was like your best pal in fourth grade. | N | 4 | 4 | 5 | 802 | Male |
you know the one, if you had a strict schoolmarmish teacher as ample as say "mademoiselle o"- | X | 3.8 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 802 | Male |
...and she was riding with chalk on the board and all of her was jiggling. | N | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 802 | Male |
and you'd be sent to the principal, and the principal would warn you that this was going on your permanent record. | N | 4.4 | 3.8 | 5.2 | 802 | Male |
it was always an adventure. it was always fun with nabokov two quick examples of what i mean. when we went to see him. | H | 4.8 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 802 | Male |
i said, i had only two, a verbal altercations | N | 3.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 802 | Male |
one of my students rush off to me in the cafeteria and told me i was a eunuch. | X | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4 | 802 | Male |
no no alfred, you misunderstood them, he said you are unique. | N | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 802 | Male |
she'd been sitting way in the back. and she complained to me in slang. | N | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 802 | Male |
i hadn't heard since my early youth that a couple near her had been spooning. | X | 4 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 802 | Male |
and nabokov eagerly his eyes glinting says. | N | 5 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 802 | Male |
what did you say to her? and i said with considerable smugness, because i thought my repost had been very witty. | N | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 802 | Male |
i said, sister, be glad that in these difficult times | X | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 802 | Male |
nabokov published his best books after the age of 50, how did he do this in the face of. | X | 3.4 | 4 | 4 | 802 | Male |
a gift, an accident of temperament to character and determination and ethical achievement. | N | 4.6 | 4.8 | 5 | 802 | Male |
absolutely astonished to see their fluency. he couldn't understand it. he kind of stammered, he said it must be psychological. | U | 4.4 | 5 | 5 | 802 | Male |
and then in a tone, i'd never heard before from him. he says, a tone throbbing with unsettled grief. | S | 2.6 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 802 | Male |
50 years after his father's death. he said he was cheated. | S | 4.6 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 802 | Male |
he was cheated of his chance to leave. | D | 3.7 | 2.4 | 4.7 | 802 | Male |
i'm joyce, carol oates of princeton university. | N | 2 | 4.6 | 2.4 | 803 | Female |
i'm honored to be part of this distinguished gathering, such a festival occasion. | H | 2.6 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 803 | Female |
i was about the same age as lolita, but i have to confess i was nothing like lolita. | U | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 803 | Female |
not a dazzling, difficult story in which the author- | X | 3.8 | 4 | 4.2 | 803 | Female |
but a more subdued, elegiac tale of parental grief. | N | 3.4 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 803 | Female |
in its way, this story, too, is difficult. it is the work of a virtuoso- | S | 3 | 3.8 | 3 | 803 | Female |
... yet its depiction of a stark domestic tragedy- | S | 2.909091 | 2.909091 | 3.454545 | 803 | Female |
... in no way romanticized or melodrama-tized, suggests artistry of the highest quality. | N | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 803 | Female |
reading portions and summarizing a little than reading the final, third part, which is very powerful. | N | 3.6 | 4 | 3 | 803 | Female |
it's a subtle story, has a subtle ending. so i hope it will come across. my theory is that a portion of nabokov is better than none. | N | 4.4 | 4 | 4.6 | 803 | Female |
and my hope is that you will immediately read or re-read this story tomorrow. | X | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3 | 803 | Female |
signs and symbols was written in english, originally published in the new yorker, which seems appropriate- | N | 3.2 | 4 | 4 | 803 | Female |
and collected in nabokov's dozen in 1958. | N | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4 | 803 | Female |
his parents chose a dainty and innocent- | N | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 803 | Female |
... trifle, a basket with 10 different fruit jellies and 10- | N | 2.6 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 803 | Female |
at the time of his birth, they had been married already for a long time. | N | 3.6 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 803 | Female |
a score of years had elapsed, and now they were quite old. | S | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3 | 803 | Female |
her drab gray hair was done, anyhow. | N | 3.666667 | 3.222222 | 3.666667 | 803 | Female |
black dresses. unlike other women of her age, she presented a naked, white countenance to the fault-finding light of spring days. | N | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 803 | Female |
her husband, who, in the old country, had been a fairly successful businessman, was now wholly dependent on his brother isaac- | X | 3.2 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 803 | Female |
... a real american of almost 40 years standing. | N | 3.2 | 4 | 4.4 | 803 | Female |
they seldom saw him and had nicknamed him the prince. | N | 4 | 4 | 4 | 803 | Female |
that friday, everything went wrong. they go by subway, and it breaks down. | S | 4 | 4 | 3.2 | 803 | Female |
they get on a bus, and it's not a very pleasant atmosphere. | N | 4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 803 | Female |
it was raining hard as they walked up the brown path leading to the sanitarium. | N | 2.2 | 3 | 3.8 | 803 | Female |
there, they waited again. and instead of their boy shuffling into the room, as he usually did- | N | 4 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 803 | Female |
... his poor face blotched with acne, ill-shaven, sullen, and confused- | S | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4 | 803 | Female |
... a nurse they knew and did not care for appeared at last and brightly- | X | 4.8 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 803 | Female |
... explained that he had, again, attempted to take his life. | S | 2.7 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 803 | Female |
he was all right, she said, but a visit might disturb him. | N | 3.4 | 4 | 3.8 | 803 | Female |
the last time he had tried to do it- | N | 3.4 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 803 | Female |
... his method had been, in the doctor's words, "a masterpiece of inventiveness." | S | 4.6 | 4 | 4.4 | 803 | Female |
the system of his delusions had been the subject of an elaborate- | N | 4 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 803 | Female |
... paper in a scientific monthly, but long before that, she and her husband had puzzled it out for themselves. | X | 3.6 | 4 | 3.4 | 803 | Female |
is a veiled reference to his personality and existence. | N | 2.8 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 803 | Female |
he excludes real people from the conspiracy because he considers himself to be so much more intelligent than other men. | X | 3 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 803 | Female |
phenomenal nature shadows him wherever he goes. | H | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 803 | Female |
clouds in the staring skies transmit to one another, by means of slow signs, incredibly detailed information regarding him. | N | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 803 | Female |
his inmost thoughts are discussed at nightfall, in manual alphabet, by darkly gesticulating trees. | N | 3.4 | 4 | 3.4 | 803 | Female |
some of the spies are detached observers, such as glass surfaces and still pools. | N | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 803 | Female |
others, such as coats in store windows, are prejudiced witnesses, lynchers at heart. | X | 4.6 | 3 | 4.8 | 803 | Female |
others, again... running water, storms... are hysterical to the point of insanity, have a distorted opinion of him, and grotesquely misinterpret his actions. | N | 4.6 | 4.2 | 5 | 803 | Female |
he must always be on his guard and devote every minute and module of life to the decoding of the undulation of things. | N | 3.8 | 4 | 3.6 | 803 | Female |
when they emerged from the thunder and foul air of the subway- | N | 3 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 803 | Female |
... the last dregs of the day were mixed with the street lights. | N | 2.6 | 3.6 | 3 | 803 | Female |
they entered their two-room flat, and he at once went to the mirror. | N | 2.4 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 803 | Female |
straining the corners of his mouth apart by means of his thumbs | N | 4 | 3.2 | 4 | 803 | Female |
with a horrible mask like grimace. he removed his new hopelessly uncomfortable dental plate | N | 3 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 803 | Female |
and severed the long tusks of saliva, connecting him to it. | N | 3.8 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 803 | Female |
he read his russian language newspaper while she laid the table | X | 4 | 4 | 4.8 | 803 | Female |
with the pale vittles that needed no teeth. she knew his moods and was also silent. | X | 4 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 803 | Female |
when he had gone to bed she remained in the living room with her pack of soiled cards and her old albums. | N | 3 | 4 | 3.8 | 803 | Female |
across the [inaudible 00:00:42] yard where the rain tinkled in the dark against some battered ash cans, windows were blandly alight and then one of them, | N | 3.8 | 4 | 4.4 | 803 | Female |
a black trousers with man with his bare elbows raised and could be seen lying on an untidy bed. | S | 4.4 | 2.8 | 4.8 | 803 | Female |
she pulled the blind down and examined the photographs. | N | 3.166667 | 3.833333 | 3.5 | 803 | Female |
as a baby, he looked more surprised than most babies. | N | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 803 | Female |
and she's looking through these various photographs, so. four years old in a park moodily, shyly, with a puckered forehead, looking away from an eager squirrel. | N | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 803 | Female |
age six, that was when he drew wonderful birds with human hands and feet and suffered from insomnia, like a grown-up man. | X | 4.2 | 5 | 5 | 803 | Female |
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