January 2011
arsvitaest: On Discovering a Butterfly →
arsvitaest:
by Vladimir Nabokov
I found it and I named it, being versed in taxonomic Latin; thus became godfather to an insect and its first describer—and I want no other fame. Wide open on its pin (though fast asleep), and safe from creeping relatives and rust, in the secluded stronghold where we keep …
oda al auricular
