Vladimir Nabokov. Labios contra labios
Vladimir Nabokov. LIPS TO LIPS
(He had in view an old female cousin and two or three business acquaintances. His son did not read Russian.)
Here began the era in his life which the wits denoted by the term "apropos." Either in a Russian bookshop, or at a meeting of the Friends of Expatriate Arts, or else simply on the sidewalk of a West Berlin street, you were amiably accosted ("Ah! How goes it?") by a person you knew slightly, a pleasant and dignified gentleman wearing horn-rimmed glasses and carrying a cane, who would en