Lo. Lee. Ta.
Hey, yesterday was the 113th birthday of Vladimir Nabokov, my favorite Russian lepidopterist. To celebrate, let’s listen to this LP of the man himself reading a chapter from Lolita (the classic sequence wherein Humbert confronts Quilty), as well as some poetry. Fun stuff — recorded and released sometime in the 1960s, I assume? Nabokov might be a guy who seems worlds away from where I am now (Colorado), but there’s a wonderful sequence in his memoir, Speak, Memory, about his time in the Rocky Mountains hunting rare butterflies beneath blue skies of “extraordinary intensity” that remind him of northern Russia.
Update - Apparently someone reported this link and it’s been deleted? Weirdness. Anyway, you can still get the LP here.
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