Showing posts with label Nabokov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nabokov. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

That's just your ego talking


Sigmund Freud was born today in 1856.

"I think he's crude, I think he's medieval, and I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me." -- Vladimir Nabokov.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The law of devolution


Birthday of Charles Darwin, born 1809.

"Perhaps the most admirable among the admirable laws of Nature is the survival of the weakest." -- Vladimir Nabokov.