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Vladimir Nabokov. TIME AND EBB
poster depicting Uncle Sam and his Roosevelt-ian tired blue eyes or else a dapper uniformed girl with a hypertrophied nether lip (that pout, that sullen kiss-trap, that transient fashion in feminine charm—1939-1950), and the unforgettable tonality of mixed traffic noises coming from the street—these patterns and melodic figures, for the conscious analysis of which time is alone responsible, somehow connected the "drugstore" with a world where men tormented metals and where metals hit back.
I attended a school in New York; then we moved to Boston; and then we moved again. We seem always to have been shifting quarters— and some homes were duller than others; but no matter how sma