Vladimir Nabokov Quote
My patient was one of those singular and unfortunate people who regard their heart (a hollow, muscular organ, according to the gruesome definition in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, which Pnin’s orphaned bag contained) with a queasy dread, a nervous repulsion, a sick hate, as if it were some strong slimy untouchable monster that one had to be parasitized with, alas.
Vladimir Nabokov
My patient was one of those singular and unfortunate people who regard their heart (a hollow, muscular organ, according to the gruesome definition in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, which Pnin’s orphaned bag contained) with a queasy dread, a nervous repulsion, a sick hate, as if it were some strong slimy untouchable monster that one had to be parasitized with, alas.
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