Author of quotes: Vladimir Nabokov. Page 23
If the roadside sign of the shop read: "we Buy the gifts!" we just had to go there, were there to buy all sorts of stupid Indian items, dolls, copper trinkets, cactus candy. The phrase "gifts and Novelties" directly fascinated her by their trochaic lilt. If some café sign proclaimed "Ice Drinks," she mechanically responded to the invitation, even though all drinks everywhere were ice-cold. It spoke to her ads, she was the ideal consumer, the subject and object of every foul poster.
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Its internal shape was represented to me to the contrary of the template: sweet, sultry cacophony of jazz, ice cream under chocolate sauce tockovi, Comedy with songs, kinozhurnala and so on - these are obvious items in her list of favorite things.
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...in life, in all the summer opened with a Bang, a side door and burst into the roar of the black eternity, drowning out the zahlest wind the cry of a lonely death.
I can't stand the theater, see it in historical perspective, primitive and rotten form of art, which recalls the rites of the stone age and all communal nonsense despite individual injections of genius, like, say, the poetry of Shakespeare or Ven Johnson, who, locking himself and not in need of actors, the reader automatically extracts from drama.
You can always count on a murderer in respect of a fancy prose style.
