Piece: Lysandra cormion. A butterfly collected and identified by Vladimir Nabokov.
Where: American Museum of Natural History which received over 500 other specimens of Lepidoptera from Nabokov. New York, NY.
Piece: Lysandra cormion. A butterfly collected and identified by Vladimir Nabokov.
Where: American Museum of Natural History which received over 500 other specimens of Lepidoptera from Nabokov. New York, NY.
I was shocked and quite shaken to learn, somewhere along the way, that Nabokov was a supporter of Richard M Nixon. The air just kind of went out of that balloon…
This is news to me—I’ll probably be googling this in a few seconds…
You better let me know how much truth there is in it then: – I took it on face value years ago along with a bunch of other things, some of which turned out to be true . . .
I found a little evidence here:
http://blog.nixonfoundation.org/2010/06/a-favorite-of-nabokovs/
This section of the Nixon Foundation’s site is kind of amusing. It’s tone sort of suggests that one shouldn’t be all that shocked or shaken by what a cool, progressive guy Nixon was and how many writers and artists just loved him to death.
Thanks for the link – although the very existence of a Nixon Foundation is troubling. Was interested to learn whilst there that Pat Nixon is “one of the most beloved figures in modern American history” – which rather surprised me. But I guess that if you have an entire site devoted to re-imagining Richard Nixon as a Great American President, then you’re going in for some fairly significant conjuring with truth, facts, reality etc …
That must be their strategy. “Pat Nixon: a person barely ever thought about at all” doesn’t have the same ring to it.