proff @proff.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I started reading Pnin recently and Nabokov will just drop shit like this in there while describing a dude's office: 030
!["With the help of the janitor he [Pnin] screwed onto the side of the desk a pencil sharpener-that highly satisfying, highly philosophical implement that goes ticonderoga-ticon-deroga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qpodnb5eqo7kszw44b2fhmvg/bafkreic3b5apool3kseq33ywwrgw56thhljnutvqbgghmxrx6346kw7i2i)