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Vladimir Nabokov. A SLICE OF LIFE
decorate the intake of Russian liquor, or whether he really believed that he and I had begun, when still in my room, to plan and discuss something or other—but there he was, filling his fountain pen and with a significant air bringing out what he called the dossier: letters from his wife received by him last spring in Bremen where he had gone on behalf of the emigre insurance company for which he worked. From these letters he began to cite passages proving she loved him and not the other chap. In between he kept repeating brisk little formulas such as "That's that," "Okey-dokey," "Let's see now"—and went on drinking. His argument reduced itself to the idea