I read in some Nabokov's interview back in my time. At some point the questions goes like how do you would rank yourself among other contemporaries writers or s

I read in some Nabokov's interview back in my time. At some point the questions goes like how do you would rank yourself among other contemporaries writers or something along that. He responds that it should be a typography sign, like a lying closing parenthesis, and then he would trace it as the proper answer. For me, it was the first time I hear about a emoji.