Gallery of heroes
Vladimir Nabokov
photo by J. M. Schlemmer, Montreux, Switzerland. Nabokov invented
the smilie before email:
"I often think there should exist a special typographical
sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark, a supine
round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply
to your question." -- V. Nabokov in "Strong Opinions" 1973.
Another of my favorite Nabokov gems:
"Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the
act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively
perceived texture." -- V. Nabokov, in "Strong Opinions" 1973.
