By Thomas Karshan. This absolute freedom was, in Nabokov's thinking, embodied in play, in games, in sport, and even in the Olympics. For, as he says in "Play", "there is no play without competition," and therefore there can be no true play in a State which enforces unanimity and sameness, whether religious, political, or sexual.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:26PM on January 14, 2014