How not to impress Nabokov…
I instantly realized I had made a remark that apparently connected with a view he had, or was developing, concerning these two Russian writers. At that point, I should have left the office, making some excuse about needing to give the question more thought. Instead, I said pathetically, “They are both Russian.”
via An A from Nabokov by Edward Jay Epstein | The New York Review of Books.
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