Vladimir Nabokov. Lik : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. Lik
Vladimir Nabokov. LIK
tagonists) he had an incurable heart ailment—while the streets were virtually swarming with robust oldsters. There seemed to be a certain connection between this illness of his and his fondness for fine, expensive things; he might, for example, spend his last 200 francs on a scarf or a fountain pen, but it always, always happened that the scarf would soon get soiled, the pen broken, despite the meticulous, even pious, care he took of things.
In relation to the other members of the company, which he had loined as casually as a fur doffed by a woman lands on this or that quite anonymous chair, he remained as much a stranger as he had been ar the first rehearsal. He had immediately had the