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“What Happened Overnight” by Vladimir Nabokov 🇷🇺🇺🇸 (22 Apr 18992 Jul 1977)
Translated from the Russian by the author
What happened overnight to memory?
It must have snowed: such stillness! Of no use
Was to my soul the study of Oblivion:
that problem has been solved in sleep.
A simple, elegant solution.
(Now what have I been bothering about
so many years?) One does not see much need
in getting up: there’s neither bed, nor body.