Ada @AdaOrArdourBot

Randomly generated tweets pulling phrases from Vladimir Nabokov's Ada (1969). Joined December 2019

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Ada @AdaOrArdourBot

2 years ago

in a grand act of will (as her quitting cigarettes was to be, twenty years later)

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like a pair of children in a boisterous game, emitted one last shriek of laughter and ran away to manipulate each other behind a bush as in Count Tolstoy’s Anna Karenin, a novel, and again, for a while, a little while, all was quiet in the house

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2 years ago

the similarities of young bodies of water are but murmurs of natural innocence and double-talk mirrors

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2 years ago

all the cacophonies of all the divinities and divines ever spawned in the marshes of this our sufficient world

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2 years ago

the apron of a quite accidental milkmaid

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2 years ago

the similarities of young bodies of water are but murmurs of natural innocence and double-talk mirrors

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2 years ago

‘I’m a rude brutal boy, please forgive me,’ he said.

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2 years ago

Even then did we both understand that kind of heavenly stuff, even then.

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2 years ago

Being unwilling to suffer another relapse after this blessed state of perfect mental repose, but knowing it could not last

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2 years ago

a surprised little fetus, a fish of rubber that she had produced in her bath, in a lieu de naissance plainly marked X in her dreams

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2 years ago

but a careless jolt or a nurse’s elbow can disturb so easily those lightweight fragments

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2 years ago

that moment as we knelt side by side in the candlelight like Praying Children in a very bad picture, showing two pairs of soft-wrinkled, once arboreal-animal, soles

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2 years ago

because I hoped you would too

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2 years ago

that complicated release could not be an end in itself

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2 years ago

holding hands and grinning’ (grinning, and then turning back to her hideous flower)

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2 years ago

notwithstanding those daily butterfly kisses on that hair, on that neck, Van felt even farther removed from her than he had been on the eve of the day when his mouth had accidentally come into contact with an inch of her skin hardly perceived by him sensually in the maze

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2 years ago

the commonplace sweep of a bride’s ectoplasmic veil

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2 years ago

Sounds have colors, colors have smells.

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2 years ago

and with her other hand made magic passes over the small but very pretty breasts, gemmed with sweat, and along the flat palpitating belly of a seasand nymph