Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008738, Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:40:26 -0700

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VN: Quote of the Day
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> Greetings
> As there is mostly discussion about VN and little of his actual words seen
> on this list I thought I'd past along one of my favorite quotes hoping to
> spawn a trail of of contributions; sort of a "quote of the day" as the
> subject suggests.
> Dane Gill
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> "It is a funny thing, when you imagine yourself returning into the past
with
> the contraband of the present, how weird it would be to encounter there,
in
> unexpected places the prototypes of today▓s acquaintances, so young and
> fresh, who in a kind of lucid lunacy do not recognize you; thus a woman,
for
> instance, whom one loves since yesterday, appears as a young girl,
standing
> practically next to one in a crowded train, while the chance passerby who
> fifteen years ago asked you the way in the street now works in the same
> office as you."
>
> -The Gift p. 52-53 (Popular Library Edtion, 1963)
> note: I understand this addition is filled with misprints. I hope this
> example is as VN intended it, however I do not have another edition of The
> Gift.
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