Ron Rosenbaum has finally gone to read his white whale-sort of, more like his, hmm, forbidden lust object?-, Nabokov's Laura, which will be published in November and, until then, is locked in a room at Random House. The book will be a collection of Nabokov's 138 index cards for the novel, reproduced-and perforated for detachment and shuffling. (Somehow the book is listed as "304 pages.") Also? It turns out they are mostly illegible.