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“For the first time in their love story, the blessing, the genius of lyrical speech descended upon the rough lad, he murmured and moaned, kissing her face with voluble tenderness, crying out in three languages - the three greatest in all the world - pet words upon which a dictionary of secret diminutives was to be based and go through many revisions till the definitive edition of 1967.”
your daily Nabokov, for the upkeep of healthy aesthetic receptors.
Anyway, three greatest languages indeed. A case can conceivably be made for German instead of French, but I’m not going to make it.
