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Vladimir Nabokov. ULTIMA THULE
ficiently solid apparatus. I am training myself by willpower not to leave the vivarium, to observe the rules of your mentality as if nothing had happened; in other words, I act like a beggar, a versifier, who has re ceived a million in foreign currency, but goes on living in his base ment, for he knows that the least concession to luxury would ruin his liver."
"But the treasure is in your possession, Falter—that's what hurts. Let us drop the discussion of your attitude toward it, and talk about the thing itself. I repeat—I have taken note of your refusal to let me peek at your Medusa, and am further willing to refrain from the most evident inferences, since, as you hint, any l