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Vladimir Nabokov. TYRANTS DESTROYED
cret, how he could carry the weight of that monstrous paternity, and incessantly see and hear his offspring's public presence— but then I noticed that the mazy and issueless design of the wallpaper was showing through his body; I stretched out my hand to detain my guest, but the dodderer dissolved, shivering from the chill of vanishment.
And yet he exists, this father (or existed until quite recently), and if only fate did not bestow on him a salutary ignorance as to the identity ol his momentary bedmate, God knows what torment is at large among us, not daring to speak out, and perhaps made even more acute by the fact that the hapless fellow is not fully certain of his paternity, lor the