Владимир Набоков: pro et contra T2

such fancies are not foreign to young lives

unless, possibly, they are directed by some venerable and rigid religion

I have ransacked my oldest dreams for keys and clues

with its crankish quest for sexual symbols

bitter little embryos spying upon the love life of their parents (NY)

bitter little embryos spying, from their natural nooks, upon the love life of their parents (CE, SM)

on more divine lines than the Greek Orthodox ducking (NY, CE)

on more divine lines than the Greek Catholic ducking (SM)

I lingered a little to listen

a dreamier and more delicate sensation

the individual mystery remains to tantalize the memoirist

no dearth of data

fatal poverty and fatalistic wealth got fantastically interwoven

through one of the east windows a marvelous case of levitation (NY, CE)

through one the west windows a marvelous case of levitation (SM)

imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature

I had asked questions and had assessed the answers

immediately invades my memory

between two eternities of darkness

the smug, encroaching air of a coffin

I have doffed my identity in order to pass for a conventional spook and steal into

realms that existed before I was conceived

slave messengers on a Roman road or sages under the willows of Lhasa

the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes

he had a fuzzy brown beard and china-blue eyes (NY, CE)

Zhernosekov had a fuzzy brown beard, a balding head, and china-blue eyes, one of

which bore a fascinating excrescence on the upper lid (SM)

the courteous buzz of a peasant welcome would reach us as the invisible group greeted

my invisible father (ономатопея)

intense tenderness[20]