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hear the click as I waited to give the little family ahead of me a chance
to go its own way. Penelope is in her forties by now. Surely she has
grown children by her forgiving fiantz. Nabokov is no longer writing in
the Montreux-Palace Hotel in Switzerland. I am back on a campus, ad–
miring the California girls with their long clean blond hair and their bi–
cycles and their easy ways. In the enchanted forests of Academe, the
statute of limitations on telemouth chatter never expires. Recently a
speaker on campus, visiting California to give his prize lecture, asked me:
"Hey, Herb, long time no see, you look terrific, kid, whatever happened
to that girl you had an affair with at Cornell and it caused so much
trouble?"
Coming in
Partisan Review
• Vassily Aksyonov:
A Winged Endangered Species
• Doris Lessing:
On Feminism
• Irving Louis Horowitz:
On Morris R. Cohen
• Anatole Broyard:
A Memoir
• Pearl K. Bell:
Fiction Chronicle
• Elizabeth Dalton:
On Henry James
• Sergei Dovlatov:
Fiction
• George Stade:
On Lionel Trilling
