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Часть текста: nooks, ideal places for sleep, argument, reconciliation, insatiable illicit love. At first, in my dread of arousing suspicion, I would eagerly pay for both sections of one double unit, each containing a double bed. I wondered what type of foursome this arrangement was even intended for, since only a pharisaic parody of privacy could be attained by means of the incomplete partition dividing the cabin or room into two communicating love nests. By and by, the very possibilities that such honest promiscuity suggested (two young couples merrily swapping mates or a child shamming sleep to earwitness primal sonorities) made me bolder, and every now and then I would take a bed-and-cot or twin-bed cabin, a prison cell or paradise, with yellow window shades pulled down to create a morning illusion of Venice and sunshine when actually it was Pennsylvania and rain. We came to know nous connmes, to use a Flaubertian intonationthe stone cottages under enormous Chateaubriandesque trees, the brick unit, the adobe unit, the stucco court, on what the Tour Book of the Automobile Association describes as “shaded” or “spacious” or...
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Часть текста: its numbered dangler of carved wood, became forthwith the weighty sesame to a rapturous and formidable future. It was mine, it was part of my hot hairy fist. In a few minutessay, twenty, say half-an-hour, sicher its sicher as my uncle Gustave used to sayI would let myself into that “342” and find my nymphet, my beauty and bride, imprisoned in her crystal sleep. Jurors! If my happiness could have talked, it would have filled that genteel hotel with a deafening roar. And my only regret today is that I did not quietly deposit key “342” at the office, and leave the town, the country, the continent, the hemisphere,indeed, the globethat very same night. Let me explain. I was not unduly disturbed by her self-accusatory innuendoes. I was still firmly resolved to pursue my policy of sparing her purity by operating only in the stealth of night, only upon a completely anesthetized little nude. Restraint and reverence were still my motto-even if that “purity” (incidentally, thoroughly debunked by modern science) had been slightly damaged through some juvenile erotic experience, no doubt homosexual, at that accursed camp of hers. Of course, in my old-fashioned, old-world way, I, Jean-Jacques Humbert, had taken for granted, when I first met her, that she was as unravished as the stereotypical notion of “normal child” had been since the lamented end of the Ancient World B. C. and its fascinating practices. We are not...
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Часть текста: меру своих способностей, результат всегда вознаграждает старания. В. Набоков. Лекции по русской литературе [139] 1 Почти все наиболее известные литературные герои Набокова — Лолита и Гумберт, Пнин, Шейд и Кинбот, Владимир Набоков из книги «Память, говори» — родились или были частично взращены в Итаке. Как и образ собственной жены, созданный Набоковым для нее и при ее участии, тот самый, в котором она, как правило, и запомнилась многим [140]. Со временем Вера ответит ему тем же, создав ему некий образ, и это будет не Владимир Владимирович Набоков, не В. Сирин, не профессор Набоков, не автор «Лолиты», а — «В. Н.», памятник в себе, некий высший символ в традиции псевдонимов-анаграмм. Истинная жизнь миссис Набоков — или той, что вела переписку в качестве «миссис Владимир Набоков», не сразу приняв эту формулу обозначения, — начинается за створками услужливо распахнутого окна на Ист-Стейт-стрит. И началась она, как жизнь всякого американца, с освоения автомобилевождения. Вскоре после приезда в Итаку Вера проторила дорожку к Бертону...
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