Vladimir Nabokov. Lance
Vladimir Nabokov. LANCE
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And they were back! A horseman, clappity-clap, gallops up the cobbled street to the Bokes' house through the driving rain and shouts out the tremendous news as he stops short at the gate, near the dripping liri-odendron, while the Bokes come tearing out of the house like two hystricomorphic rodents. They are back! The pilots, and the astrophysicists, and one of the naturalists, are back (the other, Denny, is dead and has been left in heaven, the old myth scoring a curious point there).
On the sixth floor of a provincial hospital, carefully hidden from newspapermen, Mr. and M