Vladimir Nabokov. Guía de Berlín : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. Guía de Berlín
and fish houses. Rows of illuminated displays behind glass in the dimly lit hall resemble the portholes through which Captain Nemo gazed out of his submarine at the sea creatures undulating among the ruins of Atlantis. Behind the glass, in bright recesses, transparent fishes glide with flashing fins, marine flowers breathe, and, on a patch of sand, lies a live, crimson five-pointed star. This, then, is where the notorious emblem originated—at the very bottom of the ocean, in the murk of sunken Atlantica, which long ago lived through various upheavals while pot tering about topical Utopias and other inanities that cripple us today.
Oh, do not omit to watch the giant tortoises being fed.