Status Updates From The Luzhin Defense

Nabokov project? I really enjoyed Despair so I’m hoping this one is just as good 😇

“Any future is unknown—but sometimes it acquires a particular fogginess, as if some other force had come to the aid of destiny’s natural reticence and distributed this resilient fog, from which thought rebounds.

“on his father's advice, he had taken his aunt a large box of chocolates, half of which he had himself eaten and the remainder of which he had rearranged so that it would not be noticed”

i really want to stay up and read this :(

alright fine. yes, i picked this up because of chess story.

Opened book. Read half a page. Nearly threw up. Closed book. Thank you food poisoning I am miserable.