Word: fatherness
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...assume that the recent green light points to some newly unearthed document or deep philosophical revelation. Not so. In an absurd introduction seeking to defend the decision, Nabokov’s son Dmitri waxes at turns cloyingly idolizing, stridently resentful, and distastefully self-aggrandizing in his memories of his father. He concludes by asking the question his entire essay has been begging: “But why, Mr. Nabokov, why did you really decide to publish ‘Laura’?” The response: “Well, I am a nice guy, and, having noticed that...
...sister was so furious, she barely spoke to me during my father's last years. Honest, I'm not a terrible person. So how did I get it so wrong? (See how to prevent illness...
...became more present for my father in his last years. After he died, I apologized to my sister. And so, in our imperfect way, we remain "family" and sometimes even laugh over a childhood memory that, now that our parents are gone, we are the only people on earth who share...
David said his father saved Farmer’s reply that said the march was a good idea, but too difficult to organize...
...Nine months later, the march happened. My father clearly cared about civil rights issues even as an undergraduate,” David said...