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Vladimir Nabokov. ULTIMA THULE
e good people there had not only informed him of your death, but also indicated to him from afar my figure upon the deserted beach, a figure that had become a kind of local curiosity (for a moment I felt ashamed that the round back of my grief should be visible from every terrace), "We met at Adam Ilyich's," he said, showing the stumps of his in-. cisors and taking his place in my limp consciousness. I must have proceeded to ask him something about Falter.
"Oh, so you haven't heard?" the prattler said in surprise, and it was then that I learned the whole story.
It happened that the previous spring Falter had gone on business to a particularly viny Riviera town, an