I am an educator. This is my main talent. I actually have two main talents. Second, I'm terrible at writing obituaries. What can I do? Such is the talent.
This may seem like snobbish boasting, but reading Nabokov pierces me. I can't say it's like me, but that's how I feel. Although I can't explain it. I'm a member of Nabokov. First of all, before the Lolita period. I was once forced to write either 30 or 50 favorite books. “The gift” was in first place for me.
Wine, cinema and dominoes? Wine is very important to me. Cinema, of course, too. Although, to be honest, I always considered myself stupid to watch highly intelligent films. I made several visits, but could not understand what the movie "Mirror" was about. Others have an idea about this film, but I couldn't form my own. Although Tarkovsky’s other film “Andrei Rublev” is one of my favorites.
I slowly began to feel that I was seeing worse. TV series are replacing reading novels. There is a wonderful writer Guzel Yakhina. Her first book is about the exodus of her people. I remember what I read, but now I won’t say what was discussed. Here’s an amazing thing: it’s extremely difficult for me to stay focused. Does not work. I'm reading, but I don't remember what happened five pages ago? It was washed away, I don’t know.
For me, one of the biggest mysteries is: why does a car without a roof cost more? It doesn't have a roof. Well, it's true! Can you give another example where there is a line of items, but without something they cost more?
In the theater there is a network of intrigue, there are secret and open societies and Masonic lodges. The intriguers are all the female half and all the male half, excluding me. I am in a special position, I am silent, I walk like a cloud and do not join in. Everyone thinks that I’m biding my time and will show myself, but I won’t show it at all. All!
Quote Explanation: From a letter to Lyudmila Abramova, 1962.
Remind me more often that not everything has died for me in Rus', which is already beginning to seem like a grave that has mercilessly stolen everything that is precious to the heart.