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THE POTATO ELF

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Nabokov, V. (2004). THE POTATO ELF. In Nabokov, V. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. Vintage, pp. 228-247

traveling from place to place, especially working or based in various places for relatively short periods

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It is hard to be happy when one’s husband is a mirage, a peripatetic legerdemain of a man, a deception of all five senses.

—p.232 by Vladimir Nabokov
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It is hard to be happy when one’s husband is a mirage, a peripatetic legerdemain of a man, a deception of all five senses.

—p.232 by Vladimir Nabokov
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2 days, 5 hours ago

(adjective) of a kind likely to induce sleep / (adjective) inclined to or heavy with sleep; drowsy / (adjective) sleepy

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Drowse, a tiny town in the north of England, looked, indeed, so somnolent that one suspected it might have been somehow mislaid among those misty, gentle-sloped fields where it had fallen asleep forever.

—p.240 by Vladimir Nabokov
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Drowse, a tiny town in the north of England, looked, indeed, so somnolent that one suspected it might have been somehow mislaid among those misty, gentle-sloped fields where it had fallen asleep forever.

—p.240 by Vladimir Nabokov
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2 days, 6 hours ago