
Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)

The light is good; the reading lamps, long-necked; All doors have keys. Your modern architect Is in collusion with psychanalysts: When planning parents’ bedrooms, he insists On lockless doors so that, when looking back, The future patient of the future quack May find, all set for him, the Primal Scene.
Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
Our Prince was fond of Fleur as of a sister but with no soft shadow of incest or secondary homosexual complications. She