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Vladimir Nabokov. LA VENEZIANA
interplay, nor the dark-hued warmth of the entire painting, that struck Simpson. It was something else. Tilting his head slightly to one side and blushing instantly, he said, "God, how she resembles—"
"My wife," finished McGore in a bored voice, scattering his dry pollen.
"It's incredibly good," whispered Simpson, tilting his head the other way, "incredibly..."
"Sebastiano Luciani," said the Colonel, complacently narrowing his eyes, "was born at the end of the fifteenth century in Venice and died in the mid-sixteenth in Rome. His teachers were Bellini and Giorgione and his rivals Michelangelo and Raffaello. As you can see, he