here's a motivating list: - you'll fall in love with van. - van is the most autobiographical character nabokov has ever written. - there's way more sex than in lolita. - there's this cool part you get to decode secret letters between van and ada. - it teaches you french and russian. - it will seriously double your vocabulary. read it with a dictionary. - it will be one of th emost well-written things you've ever read.
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Alas, I'm a starving artist (and not a man either). But if you pray to Saint Imelda Marcos, you just might get 'em. Here's hoping!
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and they wouldn't look too bad with a tunic and a donkey in Galilee neither.
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- you'll fall in love with van.
- van is the most autobiographical character nabokov has ever written.
- there's way more sex than in lolita.
- there's this cool part you get to decode secret letters between van and ada.
- it teaches you french and russian.
- it will seriously double your vocabulary. read it with a dictionary.
- it will be one of th emost well-written things you've ever read.
is that enough?
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it is now on my list of things to do this summer.
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