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I think it is pretty safe to say that you have been doomed as a russian literature nerd for life if you are reading by Pnin and are struck by the similarities to Notes From Underground, and also spend a great deal of time thinking about the symbolic significance of Timofey Pnin's little Russian Language department being an annex of the German department that is trying to give it to the French department, a situation which you also find enormously funny.