“Another Sinatra”

The narrator is speaking, post-2012, of the people of “the past century,” the twentieth:

Vladimir Nabokov, “Time and Ebb.” In The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (1997).

Nabokov’s note on this story: “‘Time and Ebb’ is from Nabokov’s Dozen, 1958.”

I have no idea what might lie behind the reference to the two Sinatras. I suspect that it marks a lack of interest in popular culture: the narrator knows about these Sinatras, but not Frank. Or, the narrator chooses not to acknowledge Frank. If you’d like to read an interpretation that will make your head spin, see “THOUGHTS: Telluride.”

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