A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic [...]
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Vladimir Nabokov.
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