Nabokov Butterfly Theory Vindicated ➝
Few professional lepidopterists took these ideas seriously during Nabokov’s lifetime. But in the years since his death in 1977, his scientific reputation has grown. And over the past 10 years, a team of scientists has been applying gene-sequencing technology to his hypothesis about how Polyommatus blues evolved. On Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, they reported that Nabokov was absolutely right.
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Nabokov used to ask his students, “What color are Emma Bovary’s eyes?”
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“All is dark, all is dreadful, and I do not see any special reason for my lingering in the dark, vainly invented world.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Despair
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