It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love youāand perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be createdāout of five vowels and three consonants.
Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to VƩra Nabokov, Letters to VƩra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)











