emoticones

How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past?

I often think there should exist a  special  typographical

sign  for  a  smile-- some sort of concave mark, a supine round

bracket, which I would now like  to  trace  in  reply  to  your

question.

Entrevista a Vladimir Nabokov. The New York Times, 1969.

[Font: pijamaSURF. Vladimir Nabokov, precursor de los emoticones :-)]