catchaspark:thepenguinpress: Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969. “[March 211951] Student explaini

catchaspark:thepenguinpress: Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969. “[March 211951] Student explaining to me (after getting 55) that when reading a novel (‘Ulysses’ ^ in this case) he likes to skip ‘passages and pages’ so as ‘to get his own idea, you know, about the book and not be influenced by the author’.” -- source link

More pics about