{"id":3686,"date":"2015-11-04T18:04:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2015-11-04T18:04:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:34:46","slug":"true-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/true-love\/","title":{"rendered":"True Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
From a fine essay<\/a> on Vladmir’s Nabokov’s love for Véra Evseevna Slonim :<\/p>\n He could not write a word without hearing it in her pronunciation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n He also called her “his kittykin, his poochums, his mousikins, goosikins, monkeykins, sparrowling, kidlet […] his skunky, his bird of paradise, his mothling, kitty-cat, roosterkin, mousie, tigercubkin.” He eventually married her; they were together for half a century.<\/p>\n The amazing Maria Popova of Brain Pickings<\/i> also wrote a great post<\/a> on this once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From a fine essay<\/a> on Vladmir’s Nabokov’s love for Véra Evseevna Slonim :<\/p>\n He could not write a word without hearing it in her pronunciation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n He also called her “his kittykin, his poochums, his mousikins, goosikins, monkeykins, sparrowling, kidlet […] his skunky, his bird of paradise, his mothling, kitty-cat, roosterkin, mousie, tigercubkin.” He eventually married her; they were together for half a century.<\/p>\n The amazing Maria Popova of Brain Pickings<\/i> also wrote a great post<\/a> on this once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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