每一件司空见惯的事其实都有其不为人知的一面：约翰逊难道会在1964年向博比肯尼迪伸出援手？

Every convention has its rogue narrative: Would Lyndon Johnson reach out to Bobby Kennedy in 1964?

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他打电话向现在正过着半退休生活的诺曼·博劳格寻求帮助。

He called up Norman Borlaug, now leading a semi-retired life, for help.

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他向纳博科夫在纽约的编辑求证这一消息，后者告诉他：「都准备好了：人物，场景，细节。

This news he corroborated with Nabokov's New York editor, who told him: "It's all there: the characters, the scenes, the details.

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So, let's begin with another of those scenes on 213 that Nabokov points out to us, the Kasbeam barber. Why did it take him a month to come up with the Kasbeam barber? What's going on in this tiny snippet that's so important? So here it is.

那么，我们从213页纳博科夫向我们指出的另一个,场景开始：理发师加斯比姆，为什么他花了一个月的时间,来创造理发师加斯比姆的形象呢？这个小片段里,发生了什么重要的事情呢？我们来看这里：

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