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Vladimir Nabokov. ULTIMA THULE
them at full speed by the neck—and those devils have awfully slippery necks—but even if I were to grab one of them for you, I would merely interrupt the competition, or the winner would be the other, the one I did not snatch, an utterly meaningless result inasmuch as no rivalry would any longer exist. If you ask, however, which of the two runs faster, I shall retort with another question: what runs faster, strong desire or strong fear?"
"Same pace, I suppose."
"That's just it. For look what happens in the case of the poor little human mind. Either it has no way to express what awaits you—I mean, us--after death, and then total unconsciousness is excluded, for