A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and …

Vladimir Nabokov
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A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2012). Laughter in the Dark, p.73, Penguin UK
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