Who’s that face? The “Gloomy good looks…Clean-cut jaw, muscular hand, deep sonorous voice…broad shoulder…”
Why it must be Humbert Humbert from Lolita, scanned into composite sketch software used by law enforcement.
The result is the greatest Tumblr EVER: The Composites
“Nabokov wrote most his novels on 3” x 5” notecards, keeping blank cards under his pillow for whenever inspiration struck. Seen here: a draft of Lolita.”
I really need to start doing this! I always seem to get my best ideas right before I doze off, and then again right when I first wake up!
This is just remarkable. Lolita breathes with such an easy erudition—and is so dauntingly good—that the thought of Nabokov, writing in the third or fourth language he’d learned, wrote much of it spontaneously makes me feel like a damned fraud.
(via theredshoes)
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“Just a few days after Nabokov’s death, there was an invasion of butterflies out in Springs, Long Island. It probably happens every year. But the...
Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Art, Arts & Architecture, January 1947
