Vladimir Nabokov. La visita al museo
Vladimir Nabokov. THE VISIT TO THE MUSEUM
"Agreed," said M. Godard, "but I am not crazy either. I have been curator of our museum for almost twenty years now and know this catalogue as well as I know the Lord's Prayer. It says here Return of the Herd and that means the herd is returning, and, unless perhaps your friend's grandfather is depicted as a shepherd, I cannot conceive of his portrait's existence in our museum."
"He is wearing a frock coat," I cried. "I swear he is wearing a frock coat!"
"And how did you like our museum in general?" M. Godard asked suspiciously. "Did you appreciate the sarcophagus?"
"Listen," I said (and I think there