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Several books within the bock inform its action things happen "as they do in one of R.'s novels." In the aging writer, writing on in the work of his creator, there is just a touch of self-parody, but a good deal more of sarcasm directed at critics who have falsely imputed to Nabokov several of old R.s' eccentricities, e.g., lusting after young girls...
...Science or Sorcery": as one who holds a degree in sociology, I am qualified to inform you that maximization of socioeconomic potential is a function of the needs and aspirations of the group. In other words, everyone has his hustle...
...article goes on to give the impression that the Department wants to have no association with white people. Yet it falls to inform its readers that many white professors have either taught in some classes or have appeared at the University under the auspices of the Department. Also, the article states that "in its history, there have been only 2 or 3 white concentrators in the Department," giving the impression that hundreds of other concentrators exist. In fact, there is a greater percentage of white concentrators in the Department than there is of black students in the college...
...there was no skyjacker. Only then did the cause of all the fuss come out. The flight engineer had dialed the emergency signal accidentally. On the assumption that it had not transmitted in the brief moment before he corrected it, he spun the radio dial and decided not to inform his captain...
...earlier campaigns--certainly of such famous ones as the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates. Those men answered questions from the audience, quizzed each other on facts, and courteously but staunchly defended their philosophies, not their bank accounts. Today, two 20th century politicians cannot or dare not present their ideas and inform America where they really stand...