Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Nabokov speaking...

So I had a very difficult time finding a passage we had not already talked about that dealt with memory. Instead I found several interesting passages...
The first passage is on page 188. In this section Nabokov is describing how his school life is so different from his peers. In the final line of the section Nabokov writes "But how on earth could I discuss this with schoolteachers?" I think this sentence is interesting for two reasons. The first being that it draws the reader in, it asks the reader a rhetorical question. The second being that it is a writing technique I do not believe Nabokov has employed thus far in this work.
On page 148 Nabokov describes his memory as "a glass cell" which I think is a very interesting way to think about memories.

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