Day 5. Sending Planets Spinning
In “Good Readers and Good Writers,” Vladimir Nabokov images the writer as creator: the one “who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper’s rib.” For us as readers, that universe begins with the very first sentence, springing from nothing and conjuring everything.
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