I felt like reading you a passage from Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature. Sorry for the poor video quality. I did this on a lark. It’s just me and my iPhone. If I decide to post more video content, I will learn how to do a better job of this! But thanks for indulging me for now. Hope you enjoy this paragraph from Nabokov’s lecture on Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” as much as I did.
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