A. Sklyarenko:Neither the Pushkin
monument near which Vadim meets Dora (see below), nor the Tsarskoselski Statue
of a rock-dwelling maiden who mourns her broken but still brimming jar
(reproduced in one of my earlier posts) is made of stone (as suggested by
Jansy Mello). The literary critic should note that "bronze"
is not "marble" (as VN points out in his EO Commentary in
connection with Nina Voronskoy, "that Cleopatra of the Neva").
Jansy Mello: Hello, Alexey. Thanks for
correcting my point of departure qua monuments and for a reproduction
of the Pushkin monument in LATH.
Jansy Mello: There were
various snippets that I had never watched before, such as V.Nabokov playing
chess with Vera. Quite a treat.
His reading of "Lolita" in Russian was a surprise, too. It sounded so
energetic, and I missed the mellow fluency of the "L" sequences - but my ears
are untrained!..