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Vladimir Nabokov. BREAKING THE NEWS
an objective observer to the still visible beams of an already extinguished star. My darling Moolik (her son's pet-name for her since childhood), / continue to be plunged up to the neck in work and when evening comes I literally fall off my feet, and I never go anywhere— Two streets away, in a similar grotesque apartment crammed with alien bagatelles, Chernobylski, not having gone downtown today, paced from one room to another, a large, fat, bald man, with huge arching eyebrows and a diminutive mouth. He wore a dark suit but was collarless (the hard collar with inserted tie hung yokelike on the back of a chair in the dining room) and he gestured helplessly as he paced and spoke: "Ho