"Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of……" — Vladimir Nabokov

Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have… - Vladimir Nabokov
"Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer."

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