universe of qualties (words)

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First page of Vladimir Nabokov’s first draft of
Invitation to a Beheading

26 SEP 2026

Clark Coolidge
from his contributor's note to
Paul Carroll's anthology
The Young American Poets, 1968

“Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.”