August 2010
Reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
“There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (of which I see Annabel in such general terms); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see...
