Status Updates From Pnin

“The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego. The sensation poor Pnin experienced was something very like that divestment, that communion.”

Pop off(2).

“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings.“

Pop off (1).

me when I have to read 4 books simultaneously for uni so I cannot finish one for the life of me

I have learned that Nabokov wrote this in dialogue with Don Quixote, and that it was originally serialized in The N*w Y*rker, which is helping me to understand and therefore enjoy this more