也是一只自由泳的小鸟
It was the world that was absent-minded and it was Pnin whose business it was to set it straight. His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence.
He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
我又笑死！不过人不是有四个面吗
[…] and entered into some unnecessary detail. It was a curriculum vitae in a nutshell—a coconut shell.
our friend applied himself to the pleasant task of Pninizing his new quarters.
第一次看到写拔牙坑写得这么生动的！
It surprised him to realize how fond he had been of his teeth. His tongue, a fat sleek seal, used to flop and slide so happily among the familiar rocks, checking the contours of a battered but still secure kingdom, plunging from cave to cove, climbing this jag, nuzzling that notch, finding a shred of sweet seaweed in the same old cleft; but now not a landmark remained, and all there existed was a great dark wound, a terra incognita of gums which dread and disgust forbade one to investigate. And when the plates were thrust in, it was like a poor fossil skull being fitted with the grinning jaws of a perfect stranger.
A squirrel under a tree had seen Pnin on the path.
好喜欢这本书，虽然很喜剧性但都是一些普普通通的小事，比如一本书没看完就被告知已经有另一个读者预定了，跑去图书馆还书的时候发现预定人正是他自己，而他当时明明是试图预定另一本书的。感觉和我的日常经历很像。
在看这本书的前言！纳博科夫好可爱啊，有一次进错了教室就开始讲课，被他课上的学生发现并带回去了。离开教室的时候他说：你们刚才看到的是 Coming Attraction，如果有兴趣的话下学期可以注册这门课。
One had to forget—because one could not live with the thought that this graceful, fragile, tender young woman with those eyes, that smile, those gardens and snows in the background, had been brought in a cattle car to an extermination camp and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart, into the gentle heart one had heard beating under one’s hps in the dusk of the past. And since the exact form of her death had not been recorded, Mira kept dying a great number of deaths in one’s mind, and undergoing a great number of resurrections, only to die again and again, led away by a trained nurse, inoculated with filth, tetanus bacilli, broken glass, gassed in a sham shower bath with prussic acid, burned alive in a pit on a gasoline-soaked pile of beechwood.
As usual, sterile instructors successfully endeavored to “produce” by reviewing the books of more fertile colleagues,
本来没明白 sterile 在这里是什么意思，看到后面的 fertile 笑晕了。
纳博科夫讲话好好笑啊啊啊