Status Updates From Ada

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Will get back to this eventually. It's a lot more challenging than I thought it would be, because it's not as energetic as Nabokov's other works, and the language games and family drama are exhausting after a while. But apparently I stopped right before the point it starts to get into more speculative fiction, at least according to my bête noire ChatGPT.

Reading this has been one of the most punishing experiences of my life. I’ve been slowly reading it for months. Every time it gets good, I’m caught off guard again by the gratuitous sex scenes between kids. It’s almost ruined Nabokov for me. It doesn’t feel clever or interesting.. I’m disliking this experience more than House of Leaves 😐

Nabokov a écrit : « Fût-elle née deux ou trois siècles plus tôt, elle eût tout aussi naturellement trouvé place dans la cohorte combustible des sorcières » et faut à tout prix que je m’en souvienne parce que c’est tout à fait approprié pour parler de louann