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Mystic William's avatar

I grew up in a home without books. We were dirt poor. I had a grade ten English teacher that told me to ignore her class. Every class of hers I was just to read, nothing else. She gave me great books. It was amazing. The first two books I read outside of school were ‘Couples’ by Updike, and ‘Ada’ by Nabokov. ‘Ada’ was the first novel I ever bought. I had no idea books could be so beautiful and challenging. ‘Couples’ was the first book about adults I had read.

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Some truly great responses and comments. I recall reading that when Solzhenitsyn talked to Nabokov he found that Nabokov had no interest whatsoever in the Russia question as Solzhenitsyn felt it. My impression was that Nabokov had entirely separated himself from Russia and had no interest in the politics at all.

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