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Him again," Gibreel complained. "What bloody language?"
"He made it up. It's what Kinbote's Zemblan nurse tells him as a child. In _Pale Fire_."
"_Perndirstan_," Farishta repeated. "Sounds like a country: Hell, maybe. I give up, anyway. How are you supposed to read a man who writes in a made-up lingo of his own?"
They were almost back at Allie's flat overlooking Brickhall Fields. "The playwright Strindberg," Chamcha said, absently, as if following some profound train of thought, "after two unhappy s, wedded a famous and lovely twenty-year--old actress called Harriet Bosse. In the _Dream_ she was a great Puck. He wrote for her, too: the part of Eleanora in _Easter_. An 'angel of peace'. The young men went crazy for her, and Strindberg, well, he got so jealous he almost lost his mind. He tried to keep her locked up at
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