"Does there not exist a high ridge where
the mountainside of ‘scientific’ knowledge joins
the opposite slope of ‘artistic’ imagination?"
~ Vladimir Nabokov
"My pleasures are the most intense known to man:
writing and butterfly hunting."
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Images taken from the field journals of Vladimir Nabokov
and found via this post and The New York Public Library.
The Russian Author, best known for his novel ' Lolita ' was
also a distinguished Entomologist with a particular interest in
Lepidoptera (or moths and butterflies). Parts of his butterfly
Lepidoptera (or moths and butterflies). Parts of his butterfly
collection and other items are kept in the Nabokov Museum.
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