EDNOTE. Can anyone provide the source for this quote?
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From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: D. Barton Johnson
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 3:48 AM
Subject: Reverte

 
 
 There is a sentence of VN that I took down in Portuguese and lost its reference and which I cannot locate among my VN books in English.
I would be very happy if  Nabokov-L could help me, but this seems to be an almost impossible task - although the image VN created is very strong.  Nabokov writes about " memory´s ink-stained  fingers".   
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    Cordially,    Jansy
 
P.S. Just an observation concerning Sonia Soto´s translation of VN´s violation of the cardinal rule for translators. Sometimes VN books in English and specially in Portuguese ( as well as in Spanish, I imagine) are quite difficult to get.  This doesn´t excuse S.Soto´s hurried rendering of Pnin, but it may serve as an explanation for difficulties we may find while dealing with Nabokov´s books.