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From Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
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From Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
pale fire
From Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. The ‘epic poem’ of S H A D E immediately follows . . .
on the day of his death
From the bank of the river Tweed looking towards Abbotsford I wrote a poem. A poem to my faither. A branch of an old tree was my seat.
the first creatures to smile
In Nabokov’s memoir he does more than ‘speak M E M O R Y’. One of the passages that I most love from his memoir is this: What makes you … Continue reading the first creatures to smile
and summer followed
Paestum is a special place for Peter and Sian as we visited it when on our honeymoon in Amalfi. Peter’s favourite photograph of Sian was taken at Paestum that summer: … Continue reading and summer followed
Vladimir Nabokov said . . .
The painting is called ‘Entropy’ by Amelia Augustyn.
‘Small talk of the week’
At the beginning of a new century, Marble Hill by the Thames, was to find itself the “small talk of the week”: At the beginning of last week, Marble Hill … Continue reading ‘Small talk of the week’