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Interviewer:What surprises you in life?Nabokov:...the marvel of consciousness- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.

Brian Boyd

Interviewer:What surprises you in life?Nabokov:...the marvel of consciousness- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.

Whenever a noise exceeds our processing abilities—we can’t decipher all the different sound waves hitting our hair cells—the mind . . . stops trying to understand the individual notes and seeks instea...

Brian Boyd

Whenever a noise exceeds our processing abilities—we can’t decipher all the different sound waves hitting our hair cells—the mind . . . stops trying to understand the individual notes and seeks instea...

About Author
Brian David Boyd (born 30 July 1952) is a professor of literature known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on literature and evolution. He is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the insatiability of the present, and the unfores...

Brian Boyd

Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the insatiability of the present, and the unfores...