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Did you have to say “fire of his loins?” Ick.

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It made me a little nauseated too. I put it in quotation marks because it's from the first chapter of Lolita (Nabokov) and I wanted to leave an Easter egg for my Nabokov stans.

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Quick question for you on Nabokov: I took a class by his biographer in college. He pronounced the name nah-BAH-kof. Years later, a librarian corrected me. She said it was NAH-bah-kof. Is she right?

Thx.

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I don't know, I've heard it both ways too.

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Fie on her! (I never liked her.)

Thx.

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Now all I can think about is, "Ready, fire, aim!"

Which may describe Trump's infidelity pretty well.

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