Friday, November 24, 2023

 ‘I utterly spurn and reject so-called “science fiction”. I have looked into it, and found it as boring as the mystery-story magazines... The future is but the obsolete in reverse" - Vladimir Nabokov, from "Lance"


‘The present is only the top of the past, and the future does not exist.’-- Vladimir Nabokov, from Ada, or Ardor
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