Vladimir Nabokov

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> The idea of "future recollection" can be also found in _Pnin_, though the
> term is not referred to.
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> "Next morning heroic Pnin marched to town, walking a cane in the European
> manner (up-down, up-down) and letting his gaze dwell upon various objects
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> a philosophical effort to imagine what it would be to see them again after
> the ordeal and then recall what it had been to perceive them through the
> prism of its expectation" (Vintage International, p. 38).
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