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So in a sense it tells you this work of art is of a piece with
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what you already know;
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it's familiar in those ways,
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and you shouldn't be afraid of it.
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At the same time
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it's part and parcel of that elite body
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of knowledge,
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so again there is this kind of two-facedness to the advertisement.
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It's both Everyman, and it's the elite,
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who will best read this book.
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Now I want to contrast that
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with what we see from Nabokov in this essay,