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Vladimir Nabokov. SOLUS REX
who kept apart from the others. He had a ple- beian type of face and fiddled with the postal department cap in his hands. K was close enough to observe his coarse-shod huge feet, which did not go at all with his puny figure, so that one obtained something like a photograph taken at point-blank range. Only later did K learn that this man was Sien.
At first it seemed to K that the people collected in the room were engaged in the kind of talk which had long grown familiar to him. Something within him (again, that innermost friend!) even longed, with a sort of childish eagerness, that this meeting would not differ from all previous ones. But Gumm's strange, somehow sickening gesture whe