Vladimir Nabokov. Labios contra labios
Vladimir Nabokov. LIPS TO LIPS
Oh, they'll never accept it, reflected Ilya Borisovich with anguish. They all belong to one crew.
Nevertheless he located one Madame Lubansky ("stenographer and typist") in the advertisement columns of a Russian-language newspaper and, having summoned her to his apartment, started to dictate with tremendous feeling, boiling with agitation, raising his voice—and glancing ever and again at the lady to see her reaction to his novel. HIT pencil kept flitting as she bent over her writing pad—a small, dark woman with a rash on her forehead—and Ilya Bo