A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue

I detest Punningans Wake in which a cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory

V. Nabokov, quoted in H. Gold, 'Vladimir Nabokov, The Art of Fiction No. 40', The Paris Review 41 (1967). <http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4310/the-art-of-fiction-no-40-vladimir-nabokov> Retrieved 27.3.14