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Vladimir Nabokov. SOLUS REX
use you see," concluded the prince, smiling and slitting his eyes, "I really seek only the fractions of beauty, leaving the integers to the good burghers, and those fractions can be found in a ballet girl as well as in a docker, in a middle-aged Venus as well as in a young horseman."
"Yes," said K, "I understand. You are an artist, a sculptor, you wor- ship form...."
The prince reined in his horse and guffawed.
"Oh, well, it isn't exactly a matter of sculpture—a moins que tu ne confondes la galanterie avec la Galatee—which, however, is pardonable at your age. No, no—it's all much less complicated. Only don't be so bashful with me, I won't b