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Vladimir Nabokov. ULTIMA THULE
spa, a book read in the toilet, one's own conjectures about the cosmos, the deli-cious panic of solipsism—are in themselves enough to provoke a frenzy in all the senses of an adolescent human being? There is no reason for me to become an executioner; I have no intention of annihilating en-emy regiments through a megaphone; in short, there is no one for me to confide in."
"I asked you two questions, Falter, and you have twice proved to me t he impossibility of an answer. It seems to me useless to ask you about anything else—say, about the limits of the universe, or the origin of life. You would probably suggest that I be content with a speckled minute on a second-rate planet, se