The gift nabokov7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() I imagined a snake of ink blots sliding across the text causing some words to disappear completely, others to be partially obliterated, their shape emerging from the blackness like phantoms. ![]() However, this little scene made me wonder what would happen if an inky bootlace fell on a page of Nabokov's writing. The ink we use today is safely sealed in cartridges, and more often destined for electronic printers than for any kind of writing instrument. It’s difficult to imagine that scene in an age when we rarely see an ink bottle, never mind dip anything into it. Then he carelessly drops one of the ink-soaked laces onto a page he'd just written. Half way through this novel, we come on a scene where Russian writer Nikolay Chernyshevsky smudges his old boots with ink to hide the scuff marks, and freshens up his bootlaces at the same time by dipping them into the ink pot. ![]()
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