Vladimir Nabokov Quote
Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: real things which were unfrequent and priceless, simply things which formed the routine stuff of life; and ghost things, also called fogs, such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a tower, or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a bridge. Real towers and real bridges were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral thing might look or even actually become real or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid fog. When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with ruined towers and broken bridges.
Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: real things which were unfrequent and priceless, simply things which formed the routine stuff of life; and ghost things, also called fogs, such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a tower, or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a bridge. Real towers and real bridges were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral thing might look or even actually become real or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid fog. When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with ruined towers and broken bridges.