Роман "Vane Sisters" Владимира Набокова на английском языке.
...The day, a compunctious Sunday after a week ofblizzards, hadbeenpartjewel,partmud.Inthemidst of my usual afternoon stroll through the small hilly town attachedtothe girls'college where I taught French literature, I had stopped to watch a family of brilliant icicles drip-drippingfromthe eaves of a frame house. So clear-cut were their pointed shadows onthe white boards behind them that I was sure the shadows of the falling drops should be visible too. But they were not...