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Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Drunken Syllogism

Pavel Romanovich had gone on behalf of the emigre insurance company he works for from these letters he began to cite passages proving she loved him. He kept repeating brisk little formulas such as that Oki-doki let's see now and went on drinking his argument reduced itself to the idea that if Lenoška wrote I caress you mentally babunovic dear she could not be in love with another man. After a few more drinks his manner changed his expression grew somber and coarse for no reason at all after some slight hesitation Anoschka agreed to have me come over at once by that time. She said surveying me with curiosity that it is all that important

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