Badly paraphrasing here, but the Nabokov quote that always makes me laugh, is the one where after a…

Badly paraphrasing here, but the Nabokov quote that always makes me laugh, is the one where after a reporter asked him what he thought of other novelists of his day and he said something like, “I see Nabokov and then I see not even the shadow of a shadow of Nabokov.” Lol. A titan of a writer as well as a titan of an egomaniac possibly. But has, you know, Nabokov, lol.