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- Alexander Pushkin, as translated by Vladimir NabokovPushkin fought a total of twenty-nine duels, and won twenty-eight. — - Alexander Pushkin, as translated by Vladimir Nabokov

Pushkin fought a total of twenty-nine duels, and won twenty-eight.

♦ × Alexander Pushkin. Vladimir Nabokov

I have yet to read Nabokov’s Pale Fire but I have Timon of Athens from which it takes its title.
In Act Four, Timon, assailed by bandits, is hardly concerned for, he reasons, theiving is the nature of things:
the moon’s an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun
… and this jumped into my mind as I witnessed last night’s eclipse. — I have yet to read Nabokov’s Pale Fire but I have Timon of Athens from which it takes its title.

In Act Four, Timon, assailed by bandits, is hardly concerned for, he reasons, theiving is the nature of things:

the moon’s an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun

… and this jumped into my mind as I witnessed last night’s eclipse.

♦ × Vladimir Nabokov shakespeare

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