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Vladimir Nabokov. A FORGOTTEN POET
made a desperate attempt to bundle him away, but from the depth of the audience there arose the cries of "Shame, shame!" and "Astavte starika!" ("Leave the old man alone!") I find in one of the accounts the suggestion that there were accomplices among the audience, but I think that mass compassion, which may come as unexpectedly as mass vindictiveness, is sufficient to explain the turn things were taking. In spite of having to cope with three men the "starik" managed to retain a remarkable dignity of demeanor, and when his halfhearted assailants retired and he retrieved the piano stool that had been knocked down during the struggle, there