“We can at last describe his tie, an Easter gift from a dressy butcher, his brother in law in Onhava: imitation silk, colour chocolate brown barred with red, the end tucked into the shirt between the second and third buttons - a Zemblan fashion of the nineteen thirties.”

— Vladimir Nabokov , book Pale Fire

Pale Fire (1962)

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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