November 2010
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Nabokovian Vocabulary, Part 1
I’ve recently decided to go on a reading spree, kicking through V. Nabokov’s entire long-fiction OEUVRE in a single go. There were two basic impeti (?): 1) I’ve never read an author’s work all at once like that, and it seemed like a cool thing to do (for very small values of “cool”); and 2) Ada, or Ardor is one of the damned finest works I’ve ever read...