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André Gide, the dancer Nijinsky--
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all figures of this kind of aestheticism,
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this belief in the power of art, and all gay, as Godin himself is.
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And Humbert has a kind of hatred for that, which he voices on page 173.
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Sorry, 183:
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There he was, devoid of any talent whatsoever,
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a mediocre teacher, a worthless scholar,
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a glum, repulsive, fat, old invert,
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highly contemptuous of the American way of life,
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triumphantly ignorant of the English language.
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There he was, in priggish New England--[here are we!]
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crooned over by the old and caressed by the young,