Doom & Gloom From the Tomb

A selection of rad bootlegs + other music-y stuff. Come fly with me. tywilc at gmail.com @tywilc
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. 

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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