Vladimir Nabokov. The true life of Sebastian knight (№ 31120)

Sebastian was highly unusual fashion naplevatelstvo on prejudice and other advanced views. He knew that flaunting contempt for the moral principles means to carry his duplicity in a suitcase with a double bottom and remove the prejudices from the inside out. He usually chose the easiest ethical path (but the thorny aesthetic) just ' cause it was the shortest path to the desired goal; in everyday life, he was too lazy (but zealous beyond measure in the life of art), to wrestle with the task, they are not specified and they are not allowed.