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# "In the sounds of the dinner being prepared in the kitchen there was an unpleasant reproach, and the prospect of washing and shaving seemed as near and as impossible as perspective to the masters of the early Middle Ages"
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-zvukakh-gotovivshegosia-na-kukhne-obeda-byl-nepriiatnyi-uprek-a-perspektiva-umyvaniia-i-britia-kazalas-stol-zhe-blizkoi-i-nevozmozhnoi-kak-perspektiva-u-masterov-rannego-srednevekovia/
- Published: 2024-09-19T06:34:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:32:38.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Books

Nabokov, *The Gift*

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