Pale Fire is the fifth studio album by El Perro Del Mar released on 13 November 2012 on Memphis Industries, The Control Group and INGRID.
“And there are things that are hard to talk about—you'll rub off their marvelous pollen at the touch of a word.”
“Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.”
“As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.”
“I certainly do speak Russian. You see, it was the fashionable language par excellence , much more than French, among the nobles of Zembla at least.”
“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.”
“Her exotic daydreams do not prevent her from being small-town bourgeois at heart, clinging to conventional ideas or committing this or that conventional violation of the conventional, adultery being a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.”
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