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He could swear he did not look back, could not__y any optical chance, or in any prism__ave seen her physically as he walked away; and yet, with dreadful distinction, he retained forever a composite picture of her standing where he left her. The picture__hich penetrated him, through an eye in the back of his head, through his vitreous spinal canal, and could never be lived down, never__onsisted of a selection and blend of such random images and expressions of hers that had affected him with a pang of intolerable remorse at various moments in the past.
Vladimir Nabokov Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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He could swear he did not look back, could not__y any optical chance, or in any prism__ave seen her physically as he walked away; and yet, with dreadful distinction, he retained forever a composite picture of her standing where he left her. The picture__hich penetrated him, through an eye in the back of his head, through his vitreous spinal canal, and could never be lived down, never__onsisted of a selection and blend of such random images and expressions of hers that had affected him with a pang of intolerable remorse at various moments in the past.
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

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