Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011280, Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:13:51 -0800

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Fwd: Re: reversals "TERROR" (UZHAS)
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:48:35 EST
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In a message dated 25/03/2005 18:02:26 GMT Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net
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> ?Terror? 1926 (Head Inversion) p. 119
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> ?In vain did I try to master my terror by recalling how once in my
> childhood, on waking up, I raised my still sleepy eyes while pressing the back
of my
> neck to my low pillow and saw, leaning toward me over the bed head, an
> incomprehensible face, noseless, with a hussar?s black mustache just below its
> octopus eyes, and with teeth set in its forehead. I sat up with a shriek and
> immediately the mustache became eyesbrows and the entire face was transformed
> into that of my mother which I had glimpsed at first in an unwonted
upside-down
> aspect.?
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A brilliant story.

Anthony Stadlen

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