NP but Nabokov

[David Morris]

I think Nabokov's aristocratic yearnings are on full display in Ada.  It is
a world he wished was his, him as Van.

But isn't hairy rubbing against slippery a porn standard, both gay and
straight?  His brother was murdered in the camps by the Nazis for being
gay.  I find this quote ripe with Nabokov's unresolved personal shadow.

David Morris

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:40 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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> sven birkerts
> ⁦‪@svenbirkerts‬⁩
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> "There is nothing in the world that I loathe more
> than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix
> in a multiplication of mediocrity."
>
> Vladimir Nabokov b. 4,22,1899
>