Berlin, Georgia
Berlin, Illinois
Berlin, Indiana, extinct town
Berlin, Kansas
Berlin, Kentucky
Berlin, Maryland
Berlin, Massachusetts
Berlin, Michigan
Berlin, Nevada
Berlin, New Hampshire
Berlin, New Jersey
Berlin, New York
Just some Berlins in America alone.
>not knowing that many of VN's novels take place in imaginary settings, hence the distinction and precision.
This is not a pleb thread. Fuck off.
>americans in charge of town names
the wider scope of someones work should have no reflection on the credibility of a specific story
dickhead
What I remembered as the first 'graph is actually the first page:
>1. 'Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.
>2.'This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.
>3.'It so happened one night Albinus had a beautiful idea. True, it was not quite his own...[but]...he made it his own by liking it, playing with it, letting it grow upon him, and that goes to make lawful property in the free city of the mind....'
Will reading Nabokov make my weanie grow?
This is the comment of someone who is very satisfied with what he knows.
Yes. And shrink. And grow again. Back and forth like any decent novel, really..
I can think of maybe four, Ada, Speak, Memory, Pale Fire and Lolita. What do you consider the half dozen to be? Do you toss in Pnin and Despair?
Is this meant to be a criticism?