really cool find from claytoncubitt:
Vladimir Nabokov reads the opening of Lolita in English and Russian, discusses writing about the concept of time, and my favorite, shows us his copybook filled with things he detests.
Some things Vladimir Nabokov detests (read in disgustedly bemused and aristocratically accented English): italicized passages in a novel which are meant to represent the protagonist’s cloudbursts of thought, background music, canned music, piped-in music, portable music, mix-room music, inflicted music, concise dictionaries, abridged manuals, journalist cliché’s: “the moment of truth!!?”, and finally, humility.
