Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose fa…

Edward Abbey
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.34, RosettaBooks
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