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A two part post - Fan Fics and Nanowrimo

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I'm ploughing my way through Nabokov's short stories. Mostly I'm not that taken with them -- although I'm only 20% of the way through -- but I thought this was nice:

"Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness, dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a streetlamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal's black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness."

From "A Letter that Never Reached Russia", written ~1924.
 
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A two part post - Fan Fics and Nanowrimo

Greetings! Hi everyone

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