October 16th, 2011
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature’s cage. — Vladimir Nabokov, from “On a Book Entitled Lolita” (via liquidnight)
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