Vladimir Nabokov. Primer amor
Vladimir Nabokov. FIRST LOVE
And now a delightful thing happens. The process of re-creating that penholder and the microcosm in its eyelet stimulates my memory to a last effort. I try again to recall the name of Colette's dog—and, sure enough, along those remote beaches, over the glossy evening sands of the past, where each footprint slowly fills up with sunset water, here it comes, here it comes, echoing and vibrating: Floss, Floss, Floss!
Colette was back in Paris by the time we stopped there for a day before continuing our homeward journey; and there,