12.30.2024

Too Short for a Blog Post, Too Long for a Tweet 455

 


Here is an excerpt from a book I recently read, "Pale Fire," by Vladimir Nabokov.


I was an infant when my parents died. They both were ornithologists. I’ve tried 

So often to evoke them that today I have a thousand parents.


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