Thursday, June 3, 2010

Nabo-summer II!


Yes, it's summer! Time to try to dutifully plough through more books by Mr Nabokov! Happily, started with The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, which is full of all sorts of awesome, including diamond-hard observations such as:



Super-modern things have a queer knack of dating much faster than others.


He's right! I mean, look at Friendster!


Anyway. Glad to be back at it! Next up: The Defense, which revolves around [gag] chess! Should be boring as hell, but we will all emerge the wiser!

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