Vladimir Nabokov

outside the DM Plaza Motel, Ithaca, New York, 1958. (Carl Mydans)












 “A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.” 

― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

D. H. Lawrence

 from Pansies THE WHITE HORSE The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on and the horse looks at him in silence. They are s...