Speak, Memory

Nabokov

  • Speak, Memory
  • Mary
  • King, Queen, Knave
  • The Eye
  • Glory
  • Laughter in the Dark
  • Despair
  • Look at the Harlequins!
  • The Waltz Invention
  • Strong Opinions
  • The Defense
  • The Real Life
    of Sebastian Knight
  • Bend Sinister
  • Lolita
  • Pnin
  • Invitation to a Beheading
  • Transparent Things
  • The Gift
  • Ada or Ardor:
    A Family Chronicle
  • Pale Fire

Supplementary

  • The Magician's Doubts
  • Nabokov, The Man
    and His Work

Non-Bokov

  • Baudolino
  • The Trial
  • Outside Reading
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  • Random

  • Start

    BeForeward

    So. Write. Keep it simple. Right. But I can never do that, right?

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  • Neatly filling numbered gaps

    p.10, ¶ 3

    I used to write, when I used to actually write, like with pens – always black, never pencils – on actual paper, through a sort of reverse cut-up method

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  • (In)conclusive evidence

    p.11, ¶ 1

    Writing was, for a while, a strange activity for me to be engaging in. Junior and senior years of high school, I'd had several pieces in the yearly "look how talented our students are" thing. Things that I can't quite remember but I'm pretty sure I would be deeply, deeply embarrassed by

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  • Almost anyone can do me

    p.12, ¶ 2

    When I have lived in the Norman person, the pool hole in the slash of this arcade which 1/4 your age houses were called - I possessed work

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