“The Awkwardness with which nakedness is usually accompanied depends on the awareness of our defenseless whiteness, which has since lost all connection with the colours of the surrounding world and for that reason finds itself in artificial disharmony with it. But the sun’s impact restores the deficiency, makes us equal in our naked rights with nature, and the brazen body no longer experiences shame. All this sounds like a nudist brochure-but one’s own truth is not to blame if it coincides with some truth some poor fellow has borrowed.”
Vladimir Nabokov, “The Gift”, 1962.
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