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natalie / california

Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.

“[March 21 1951]

Student explaining to me (after getting 55) that when reading a novel (’Ulysses’ in this case) he likes to skip ‘passages and pages’ so as ‘to get his own idea, you know, about the book and not be influenced by the author’.”

Finally, someone with worse reading comprehension than tumblr!

Source: nypl.org
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