![]() ![]() ![]() Nature expects a full grown man to accept the two black voids, for and aft, as stolidly as he accepts the extraordinary visions in between. ![]() Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.(at some 4500 heartbeats an hour). Speak memory by Vladimir Nabikov is an autobiographical book that tells some of the story of the writer and author of ‘Lolita’ amongst other books and the bit that always drew me to this book is that it has one of the best opening line of any book I've ever read: - “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ![]()
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