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   • Vladimir Nabokov
   • synesthesia
   • autobiography
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   Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

   Vladimir Nabokov

   “The long A of the English alphabet… has for me the tint of weathered wood, but a French A evokes polished ebony.”

   Nabokov’s synesthesia:

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