Friday, 28 November 2014

Lo, a Familiar Note.

Tonight’s Nabokov sampler:

While our protagonist, HH, is being driven to a state of rose-coloured insanity by young Lo, Lo’s mama has designs on him herself. She writes him a delightfully desperate and idiotic letter expressing her (oh so hopeless) intentions. It carries the line:

I know how reserved you are, how ‘British.’ Your old world reticence, your sense of decorum may be shocked by the boldness of an American girl!

Ah yes, I think I’ve been there. (A long time ago.)

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