Vladimir Nabokov. Labios contra labios
Vladimir Nabokov. LIPS TO LIPS
"Sometimes, principles have to be sacrificed," coolly said the opal-voiced fop.
But Ilya Borisovich was no longer listening. He saw things through a haze, and being in a state of utter distress, not yet realizing fully the horror of the event, but instinctively striving to retreat as fast as pos-sible from something shameful, odious, intolerable, he moved at first toward the vague spot where vague seats were being sold, but then abruptly turned back, almost collided with Euphratski who was hurrying toward him, and made for the cl