OnBackground

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Saturday, August 06, 2005

Not lunacy

Frolics of the intuition, artistic vision, inspiration, all the grand things which have lent my life such beauty, may, I expect, strike the layman, clever though he be, as the preface of mild lunacy.

From Vladimir Nabokov's book Despair