the bitterness of an interrupted life is nothing compared to the bitterness of an interrupted work: the probability of a continuation of the first beyond the grave seems infinite by comparison with the hopeless incompleteness of the second
Nabokov, from the Boston Review, describing how I feel about waking from a good sleep. My best, most interruptible work is sleep.
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