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BUTTERFLY CATCHER

In the Sixties Nabokov switched

from ink to eraser- topped pencil

on index cards    a box of cards for Ada    a box

of cards for dreams whose “curious features”

include “erotic tenderness and heart-rending enchantment”

in one draft he traded “stillness and heat”

for “silence, a burning”                          so picture:

Vladimir [...]