Here, being in exile prevents Nabokov from making that knight's move. And you might think about that homophobic attitude to a Proustian past, the fear that it's too like what he wants to do.

因为被放逐的事实，纳博科夫不能,实现迂回前进，大家可能会想到他对,普鲁斯特过去持有的恐同性恋的态度，想到他的恐惧。

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Salvation is available,and with it immortality, but it comes from God and it doesn't come in the world in which we live, but in some other world to be achieved in the future.

人可以被救赎而不朽,但只能依靠上帝,这在我们生存的世界里是不能实现的,但也许在将来某个世界中能够实现

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