Saturday, December 01, 2012
No Curiosity about Interesting, Exciting Things
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Pnin (1957), chapter V, Part 2 (Count Fyodor Nikitich Poroshin is speaking about his children Igor and Olga):
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"My twins are exasperating. When I see them at home during breakfast or dinner and try to tell them most interesting, most exciting things—for instance, about local elective self-government in the Russian Far North in the seventeenth century or, say, something about the history of the first medical schools in Russia—there is, by the way, an excellent monograph by Chistovich on the subject, published in 1883—they simply wander off and turn on the radio in their rooms."
