Vladimir Nabokov. Las hermanas Vane
Vladimir Nabokov. THE VANE SISTERS
Speaking of old men, one should add that sometimes these posthumous auspices and interventions were in the nature of parody. Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had been engaged in examining old books for miraculous misprints such as the substitution of / for the second h in the word "hither." Contrary to Cynthia, he cared nothing for