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I had a brainstorm, that went like this: all those times I wanted to share what I was reading and couldn't because my wife would only nod her head in deference to my obviously superiour contribution to the verbal Christmas tree between us, I could write them here, for everyone and no one.

For the history buff, and I'll probably send to deffy, the following from my current reading, Bend Sinister by Nabokov:
"I disagree with you there--with both of you, " the Professor of Modern History was saying. "My client never repeats herself. At least not when people are all agog to see the repetition coming. In fact, it is only unconsciously that Clio can repeat herself. Because her memory is too short. As with so many phenomena of time, recurrent combinations are perceptible as such only when they cannot affect us any more--when they are imprisoned so to speak in the past, which is the past just because it is disinfected. To try to map our tomorrows with the help of data supplied by our yesterdays means ignoring the basic element of the future which is its complete non-existence. The giddy rush of the present into this vacuum is mistaken by us for a rational movement."

All punctuation, grammer etc are [sic] except the last close quote, which was absent in the text.