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A review by zazzeaux
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
5.0
Beneficience is a beautiful, near-perfect story.
In Terra Incognita, he has a cowardly character who says something like ...we must return, I have seven daughters and a dog. That 'and a dog' really did it. Seven daughters passes over the reading mind like tepid water, but the fact that he adds the dog as argument for ditching the failed butterfly hunt made me stop and say, I know how this guy feels. I understand.
In A Busy Man, I love the part about becoming focused on coincidences as predictors of ones death. 'The folly of chance is the logic of fate. How not to believe in fate, when its black lines persistently show through the handwriting of life? The more one heeds coincidences the more often they happen.' And the following example when he cuts a misprint from a paper (after a song and painful illness) but then sees the same sheet being used to wrap a purchase of cabbage.
In Terra Incognita, he has a cowardly character who says something like ...we must return, I have seven daughters and a dog. That 'and a dog' really did it. Seven daughters passes over the reading mind like tepid water, but the fact that he adds the dog as argument for ditching the failed butterfly hunt made me stop and say, I know how this guy feels. I understand.
In A Busy Man, I love the part about becoming focused on coincidences as predictors of ones death. 'The folly of chance is the logic of fate. How not to believe in fate, when its black lines persistently show through the handwriting of life? The more one heeds coincidences the more often they happen.' And the following example when he cuts a misprint from a paper (after a song and painful illness) but then sees the same sheet being used to wrap a purchase of cabbage.