Roi, Dame, Valet
Автор:
Nabokov, Vladimir, 384 стр., издатель:
"Gallimard", ISBN:
978-2-070-36702-3
"I have selected three figures, all of heart, while I pushed a minor part. The two new cards that were distributed I could justify the maneuver, because I've always been lucky in poker. Stealth, pointing just across the pungent tobacco smoke, the edge of a card makes its way under my thumb. Ace of heart - heart of a frog called California. And whistles of the Joker! It only remains to hope that my good old partners whose games are filled with hands full of straights and think I'm bluffing. "Vladimir Nabokov.