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.
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8. We can see Nabokov pining for Russia in Pnin, in Pale Fire, in Ada. Creating an imaginary homeland in his mind.
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9. So in his imaginings of Russia, Nabokov was also reaching out in his mind to a suppressed literature that he didn't read, couldn't read.
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@HeerJeet Or he actually sat on a bench feeding nuts to squirrels and pondering mortality. I think that's probably common. -
@cindynorth1 Sure, that's also likely.
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