Vladimir Nabokov

The Eye - Milka

By morgan_li, 3 November, 2024

In a miraculous survival, I think there is an obvious reference to Milka (the ubiquitous German chocolate brand) in The Eye:

I paused and looked up at a milk chocolate advertisement with lilac alps.  This was my last chance to  renounce penetrating into the secret of Smurov's immortality. What did I care if this letter would indeed travel across a remote mountain pass into the next century, whose very designation - a two and three zeros - is so fantastic as to seem absurd?

I nearly lost the train of thought in light of the fantastic sentences that follow, but is not the opening clearly a reference to Milka?