Basements Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.”

Vladimir Nabokov

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