Vladimir Nabokov Quote

And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.


Nabokov's congeries (ed. 1968)


And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the...

And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the...

And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the...

And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the...