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Nabokov
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Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.
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― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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Next to the right to create, the right to criticize is the richest gift that liberty of thought and speech can offer. Living as you do in freedom, in that spiritual open where you were born and bred, you may be apt to regard stories of prison life coming from remote lands as exaggerated accounts spread by panting fugitives. That a country exists where for almost a quarter of a century literature has been limited to illustrating the advertisements of a firm of slave-traders is hardly credible to
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The blurb asks the questions about Humbert Humbert:
"Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued p…more
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To read and enjoy the classics from all around the world.
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Ladies who read various books sharing various recommendations and discussion.
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This group will be reading Vladimir Nabokov's entire fictional oeuvre (plus his autobiography an…more
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