February 2012
6 posts
College Blogging: My Third Nabokov Blog. →
college-blogging:
Have you ever read a novel and decided that it was your favorite within the first…60 pages, maybe? I started to read Lolita recently and I’ve found that I love this novel even more than The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. I will say though, Lolita isn’t exactly for everyone, or perhaps it is?
Basically you have this older man that falls in love with, basically, a child. The...
“If you are not loved, but do not know for sure whether a potential rival is...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye
(via musingsofalibertine)
“Ada stood with her back against the back of a tree, like a beautiful spy who has...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor (via kitandport)
January 2012
8 posts
“In spite of everything I loved you, and will go on loving you—on my knees, with...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading (via wearediamonds)
“I am not handsome, I am not interesting, I am not talented. I am not even rich....”
– Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov (via i-starchild)
I have a hipster-esque revulsion for Lana Del Rey.
krypt0nitepussylips:
do you realize how many references lana del rey has to lolita by vladimir nabokov in her songs
“In spite of everything I loved you, and will go on loving you—on my knees, with...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading (via tranquillum)
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December 2011
4 posts
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For the Record, Lolita wasn't 'sexually... →
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The New Yorker: Does Pale Fire invite commentary?... →
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
4 posts
for the girl on the moon: Pnin →
nancielu:
I do not know that it has been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler’s helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death…
All three of them stood for a moment gazing at the...
speaklikechildren:
“And all these are worlds, said Hagen. “Or else,” said Clements with a yawn, “a frightful mess. I suspect it is really a fluorescent corpse, and we are inside it.”
This blog is the best thing that ever happened....
Oh man! Thank you! I’m so glad someone loves it so much.
September 2011
4 posts
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The Gay Nabokov
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/05/17/nabokov/print.html a fascinating piece on VVN’s gay brother, Sergei. The writing has a faint tabloidic odor to it, but the content is sound.
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August 2011
6 posts
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On Discovering a Butterfly
apoemaday:
by Vladimir Nabokov
I found it and I named it, being versed in taxonomic Latin; thus became godfather to an insect and its first describer— and I want no other fame.
Wide open on its pin (though fast asleep), and safe from creeping relatives and rust, in the secluded stronghold where we keep type specimens it will transcend its dust.
Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims...
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Dogs riding the subway :O →
In V.N’s home country.
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Go to the ask box, tell me something that you see...
Especially if you get the reference.
“Genius still means to me, in my Russian, fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
July 2011
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Rememberance, like Rembrandt- is dark but festive.
“Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via trapd00r)
Laughter In The Dark
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Sorry, but the only thing David Foster Wallace...
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June 2011
11 posts
“Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
finns-badass-world asked: Who is your favorite adventure time character? Is it me?
“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977 (via yesyes)
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under literature, russia,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #literature, #russia, #wordplay
Pale Pale Pale Fire- did we get it wrong? →
ער сломал my coeur, You broke my life.
“Он разбил мое сердце. Ты убил мою жизнь. ”
“ער שאַטטערס די האַרץ. טו דעסטראָזאַסטע מיין לעבן. ”
“Il m’a brisé le cœur. Tu as déchiré ma vie. ”
He broke my heart, you merely destroyed my life.
-Languages that Nabokov loved, Vera knew, translated into one of the best lines of Lolita.
I wish the Lolita tag was full of Nabokov and not...
May 2011
8 posts
