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Vladimir Nabokov. ULTIMA THULE
warn you, is but a perpetual game of leapfrog over its own shoulders as it keeps breeding—I kept combining various ideas, and finally found the right combination and exploded, like Berthold Schwartz. Somehow I sur vived; perhaps another in my place might have survived, too. However, after the incident with my charming doctor I do not have the least de sire to be bothered by the police again."
"You're warming up, Falter. But let's get back to the point: what exactly makes you certain that it is the truth? That monkey is not really a party to the cast lots."
"Truths, and shadows of truths," said Falter, "in the sense of spe cies, of course, not specime