46. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.” — Vladimir Nabokov 4 0 Download 12 Wallpapers 47. “She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. ...
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. Genius Vladimir Nabokov 0 0 There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. Funny Nothing ...
I do not think I have seen Clarence Brown’s essay, but he may have something there. Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only its own self to copy. INTERVIEWER Do you think literary criticism is at all purposeful? Eith...
obviously in some recollection of the sense of freedom that looking out of a window always used to give him." Gregor, or Kafka, seems to think that Gregor's urge to approach the window was a
He appears to have subjected Nabokov to a mild form of sexual abuse: "When I was eight or nine," Nabokov writes in "Speak, Memory," "he would invariably take me upon his knee after lunch and (while two young footmen were clearing the table in the empty ...