Christie's to sell Declaration of Independence

[tombogan03884]

 From Phil's post;
"The manuscript of Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished final novel, The Original of Laura, failed to sell - a surprise unhappy ending for a rare piece of literary history.
But the auction house was disappointed not to see more bidding for the Nabokov manuscript, which came to auction in a flood of publicity."

I guess I'm not the only one who would rather have my head nailed to a table than read another long winded Russian author.  

[PegLeg45]

From Phil's post;
"The manuscript of Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished final novel, The Original of Laura, failed to sell - a surprise unhappy ending for a rare piece of literary history.
But the auction house was disappointed not to see more bidding for the Nabokov manuscript, which came to auction in a flood of publicity."

I guess I'm not the only one who would rather have my head nailed to a table than read another long winded Russian author.  

In my best Doc Holliday voice, "Why Tom, Tolstoy juss rolled ovah iniz grave."     

[tombogan03884]

 Frigging Russians take 45 pages to describe a sunset, Solzhenitsyn wrote the shortest book ever to come out of Russia.
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" it covers 18 rather ordinary hours in the life of a prisoner in the Gulag and takes 203 pages.
Worth reading though.

[ericire12]

I hope Glenn Beck buys it