#en110

"Exe obviously stands for Exton, a factory town on the south short of Omega Lake. It is a rather famous natural history museum with many showcases containing birds collected and mounted by Samuel Shade."

"Gradus, as he drove back to Geneva, wondered when be would be able to use it, that gun"

"(But this transparent thingum does require Some moondrop title. Help me, Will! Pale Fire.)"

"As a rule. Shade destroyed drafts the moment he ceased to need them: well do I recall seeing him from my porch, on a brilliant morning, burning a whole stack of them in the pale fire of the incinerator before which be stood with bent head like an official mourner among the wings of black butterflies of that backyard auto-da-f6"

"Just as in the churchyard with Miles, the whole thing was upon us"

"you're tired of bly?"

"I wonder why she should be scared"

"Claire’s mother refers to Angela and Aaron as Irish twins, which confuses Claire because they are neither twins nor Irish, so she adopts Mrs. Hall’s term: stairstep sibling"