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April 15, 1950

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fiction

The Perfect Past

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction, from 1950: Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me.

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MAESTRO ON A MOUNTAINTOP

Richard O. Boyer