This post is a continuation of responses to David Potter’s post on the List-Serve 03/03/25, re: Nabokov’s Aunt Preskovia (Pauline Tarkovsky), who was a psychiatrist and wrote a book on “Women Who Kill” (now available in English. Nabokov writes in SM her curious final words: “That’s interesting. Now I understand. Everything is water, vsyo—voda.”
This makes me wonder if these remarkable words were the impetus ADA’s theme of a world technology based on water, instead of electricity.