...Not on the Way I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her...stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief. — Timon of Athens 264 Several Athenian senators visit Timon and apologize for the shameful way they...

..."I'll example you with thievery," Timon says: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. . . . But Nabokov steals from his speech to express not Timon's contempt for universal thievery but...

...declares to bandits, "Each thing's a thief": The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her...earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement — each thing's a thief. The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough...

...up the great cosmos, sun, moon, sea and earth: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea. The moon's an arrant thief, And her...earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From general excrement: each thing's a thief . . . He points to moon, sea, and earth in turn;...

...remain thieves: I'll example you with thievery. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea. The moon's an arrant thief, And her...earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. Each thing's a thief. (IV.iii.438-45) We have to encroach on others...

...10,000 bananas." The potentials are amazing. The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her...whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears. . . —William Shakespeare in Timons of Athens • The Disguise. Grammar-based mimicry can be quite...

...a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pate fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief,...earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gcn'ral excrement — each thing's a thief. The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough...

...great attraction robs the vast sea,' " she began, with admirable assurance. " 'The moon's an errant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun....whose liquid surge resolves the moon into salt tears Daric remembered the white light in Myiepa, how it rushed through the trees when he spoke Grandpapa's...

...metamorphose into endless cycles of criminality: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her...earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement. (IV.iii.436-442) This type of uncontrolled breeding is especially germane...

...motivated by gain. As Timon, at his nadir, points out, greed is the universe's operating principle: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The...earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement; each thing's a thief. The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power...