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- ↑ McCarthy, Mary (June 4, 1962). "A Bolt from the Blue". The New Republic. Revised version in Mary McCarthy (2002). A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays. New York: The New York Review of Books , pp. 83–102. ISBN 1-59017-010-5.
- ↑ Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, Princeton: The Princeton University Press, 1990. p. 709. On the same page, Boyd includes another note from Nabokov's 1962 diary: On Kinbote: "He commits suicide before completing his index, leaving the last entry without p[age] ref[erences]." Nabokov always liked—see Lolita , The Defense , Glory , Despair , King, Queen, Knave , Laughter in the Dark , Bend Sinister —to leave a body count.
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