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Vladimir Nabokov. THE LEONARDO
differently: at every step he rose on a buoyant toe in a peculiar manner, stepping and flying up as if the mere act of treading allowed him a chance to perceive something uncommon over the common heads. He was what is termed a "slank," very lean, with a pale sharp-nosed face and appallingly restless eyes. Out of the much too short sleeves of his double-breasted jacket his long wrists pro truded with a kind of annoying and nonsensical obviousness ("here we are: what should we do?"). He went out and came home at unpredict able hours. On one of the first mornings Anton caught sight of him near a bookstand: he was pricing, or had actually bought something, because