Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. - Vladimir Nabokov A 1941 family road trip along Route 66 planted the seeds for Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita. It also enriched the American Museum of Natural History’s butterfly collection by some 300 North American specimens. The author,an avid amateur lepidopterist, indulged his []
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