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Vladimir Nabokov. A BUSY MAN
dual in an unrepeatable medium: the storm-felled worn books on the shelves, the little glass pot of yogurt (said to lengthen life), the tufted brush for cleaning one's pipe, the stout album of an ashen tint in which Graf pasted everything, begin ning with the clippings of his verse and finishing with a Russian train ticket—these are the surroundings of Graf Ytski (a pen name he had thought up on a rainy night while waiting for the next ferry), a butterfly-eared, husky little man who sat on the edge of his bed hold ing the holey violet sock he had just taken off.
Henceforth he began to fear everything—the lift, a draft, builders' scaffolds, the traffic, demonstrators, a truck-mounted