1. I have this completely cockamamie theory about Nabokov which no one is going to buy but this is twitter, so I'll put it forward.
2. There's a scene in Pnin where the title character is feeding nuts to squirrels on a park bench and has an intimation of his mortality.
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3. To my mind that scene in Pnin always echoed similar scene in Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
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4. Here's the thing: while writing Pnin in early 1950s, Nabokov couldn't possibly have read Master & Margarita
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