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Nabokov’s sentences go on for lines and sometimes pages, and his highfalutin diction sprouts naturally from his polyglot education and rarefied background

Many older people, by choice or perforce, have no contact with children at all

his imagination has no ethical ballast at all

in their counterpoint and syncopation and union, they make the rhyhtm of that novel

A frontier has two sides. It is an interface, a threshold, a liminal site, with all the danger and promise of liminality.