Status Updates From Pnin

Villa Cook, finalmente. Mi sembra di stare a una festa tra i miei genitori e i loro amici (non conoscerne nessuno, ma origliarne i discorsi)

“St. Bart’s was not particularly pleased either with Lake’s methods or with their results, but kept him on because it was fashionable to have at least one distinguished freak on staff.”

“As he walked to the little tavern in library lane…Pnin suddenly felt very tired. Not only had the Zol. Fond tome become even heavier after its unnecessary visit to the library, but something that Pnin had half heard in the course of the day…, now bothered and oppressed him, as does, in retrospection, a blunder we have made, a piece of rudeness we have allowed ourselves, or a threat we have chosen to ignore.”

Reminds me so much of, and clearly influenced by, A Picture of Dorian Gray.