nabokov's butterflies dispersed to the wind!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/books/06NABO.html

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that a euphemism?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

for what?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i fear i have just unleashed a tidal wave of vulgarity on this would-be elegiac thread

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I couldn't read the article because it involves registration or something. What's it about?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

dmitri nabokov (who is now 70!!) is auctioning off vn's memorabilia collection, largely books decorated with hand-drawn butterflies

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheers.

Well, I guess he's not got a lot of use for them now. When I hit 70 I'm selling everything I own and going on a no-pants lager frenzy.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 May 2004 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Why wait til then?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 6 May 2004 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Now you have created a dilemma.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 May 2004 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be more fun if he were selling his annotated 1916 copy of Lolita by von Lichberg.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I continue to picture Dmitri as a slightly awkward yet dapper 25-year-old sitting under his father's uncomfortable, wrinkled fisheye at the piano.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

he was a racecar driver & an opera singer!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

indeed!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I met Dmitri once, in Denver, at a book event. Very tall, distinguished-looking. Pronounced his name right when I called him "Mr. Nabokov," which was a funny thing to say somehow, he was quite nice. I pointed him toward a Coke machine...he and I chatted for a second about the nice Denver weather...

kind of sad about the collection being sold off, but VN always said he regarded too much attachment to material possessions as silly...

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven years pass...

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/vladimir-nabokov-butterfly-illustrator

nabokov was such a fascinating guy

― k3vin k., Friday, 25 March 2016 16:36 (ten years ago)

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