"Like Mahler," he adds, "I felt no homesickness, no regret at leaving tragedy and faith behind".
Having previously imparted this knowledge, Mr. Nabokov is able to imply, pleasantly, that the modern educator's sanitary notion of "adjustment to life" leaves the tragedy of life quite out of the calculation, and he is able to do this with the same stroke of the pen by which he indicates the vast distance that separates Lolita from happier children.
Jon Miller's departure was a travesty, Roberto Alomar's exodus barely justifiable, and Rafael Palmiero's leave-taking a tragedy.
Staged less than three weeks before the quake's first anniversary, it also served as a signal for survivors to leave the tragedy behind and move on, as Chen said, "in courageous pursuit of a happy, new start".
"We call upon all Colombia and the international community... to back this new accord and its quick implementation so as to leave the tragedy of war in the past," the two sides said in a statement.
Whether they were fleeing the Nazis, Idi Amin or the Bosnian civil war, thousands of people have left behind tragedy in their home countries and built new lives in the UK.
The circumstances, however, have left the tragedy open to a lot of speculation.
Though the tempest was short-lived, it left fresh tragedy in its wake and provided a bitter reminder of the helpless predicament in which Haiti's displaced continue to live.
It's tempting to want to leave the tragedies behind.
Her Kennedylike family tragedy leaves the fathomless void of what might have been.
