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.
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。
