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'What we have done for ourselves always dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal' Albert Pike
i was actually watching Law and Order i believe... either way one of those justice will be served type shows, and this quote was at the end of the show. right away i thought about Nabokov.... i have been thinking that what i would write about would be how Nabokov has left an immortal existance behind with his writings, and i felt this quote really captured that, but, it made me start to think about Nabokov as a person as well. It is easy to skip by what he was for himself and the close people around him and just get to the point of what he has done for the english literature world. but what was he really like?? what did he do for himself? when he wrote was that all he needed to fulfill the want and expectance all have for their own lives? these questions just kept coming to mind and i couldnt stop thinking about that. of course i can go to wiki and get a "bio" of the author, but nothing really seems to get past what he DID or what people thought of him. Even "Speak Memory" makes me think that he is just an illusive person that no one will ever have to pleasure of meeting someone like him....