"My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime,
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"My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Was Nabokov a metalhead?
yes
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"Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds."
Did he really not like music? Is there any record of him praising a musician?
>>7677870
He said he liked his son's singing voice as well as a few violin pieces, but that's it
>I'm a bizarre savant with completely unique and aberrant sense perceptions and sense of aesthetics
>Better codify that sense of aesthetics for all the normal people who can't ever benefit from it or even experience it like I do
Thanks Nabokov, you really saved art
My books are a masturbatory exercise
—Nabby
>>7677870
i've always considered music to be the most entry-level of the arts
>>7678071
you can't get more entry level than painting
>>7677870
sonic disturbance only takes away from thinking
>>7678071
How is it entry level? You can get extremely complex with music.
>>7678080
more complex is worse. it only means more irritating sounds
>>7678095
>having an opinion this pleb