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7/23/2025, 5:57:54 PM
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>Nabokov learned Russian, French, and English all at the same time as a child
Polylingual creole of Russian aristocracy is fucking ugly. Everything written in it unironically ended up in the dustbin, while the greats towering to this day abandoned it by learning actual languages from their living environments.
Nabby didn't learn any actual languages, because he never knew any living environment. He lived a cardboard life in a postcard world, forever hiding from any drop of reality seeping in. That informed his works and his outlook. He was appalled by living and lived works because life was forever something alien and disturbing for him. Too asymmetrical, too dusty, too loud. It could only become beautiful for him if it was killed, rendered flat, recolored in gouache and covered by glass, like his butterfly collections.
>Nabokov learned Russian, French, and English all at the same time as a child
Polylingual creole of Russian aristocracy is fucking ugly. Everything written in it unironically ended up in the dustbin, while the greats towering to this day abandoned it by learning actual languages from their living environments.
Nabby didn't learn any actual languages, because he never knew any living environment. He lived a cardboard life in a postcard world, forever hiding from any drop of reality seeping in. That informed his works and his outlook. He was appalled by living and lived works because life was forever something alien and disturbing for him. Too asymmetrical, too dusty, too loud. It could only become beautiful for him if it was killed, rendered flat, recolored in gouache and covered by glass, like his butterfly collections.
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