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Brittsky
is on page 130 of 246
words cannot express how personally challenging I am finding it to read this.
I am equal parts frustrated and bewitched by Nabokov’s heady prose, and, besides, completely uninterested in the plot.
It’s been like a month of trying to read this at every interval and I have not been “sucked in” once. It’s just me running up against stodgy sentences and chipping my teeth. Seeing the forest for the trees etc
— Apr 09, 2026 08:14PM
I am equal parts frustrated and bewitched by Nabokov’s heady prose, and, besides, completely uninterested in the plot.
It’s been like a month of trying to read this at every interval and I have not been “sucked in” once. It’s just me running up against stodgy sentences and chipping my teeth. Seeing the forest for the trees etc
Brittsky
is on page 82 of 246
This is so good and so fucking hard to read. NOT an eyes skate over the page sort of book.
obtrusive prose.
— Mar 13, 2026 12:18AM
obtrusive prose.
Brittsky
is on page 70 of 246
poem: FINISHED! Not what I expected. much to chew on. meter does not concern this man
— Mar 11, 2026 05:20AM

