You're an excellent writer, friend, and readers spot this in an instant -- for one reason above all the others (and there are many): your voice is authentic, your passion pure and unmistakable.

Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to me, and thank you for watching my rather vulgar but ultimately lighthearted bartending video.

Keep on keeping on. You will go far.

P.S. Ada is one of my top 3 all-time favorite Nabokov books, and it thrilled me that you mentioned it. The truth is, I could count on one hand the number of people I personally know who've read it in full. Ada, despite its slow and difficult start, has influenced my own literature inestimably.