NPPF - Nabokov & Time

[David Morris]

More from
http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter19.txt

The  Past is also part of the tissue, part of the present,
but it looks somewhat out of focus.  The  Past  is  a  constant
accumulation of images, but our brain is not an ideal organ for
constant  retrospection  and  the best we can do is to pick out
and try to retain  those  patches  of  rainbow  light  flitting
through  memory.  The  act  of  retention  is  the  act of art,
artistic selection, artistic blending, artistic  re-combination
of  actual  events.

[...]

Nabokov's River  in  Nova Zembla  of all places, so named after
my great-grandfather, who participated at the beginning of  the
nineteenth  century  in  an  arctic expedition.



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