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One Last Thought
From a letter to Hugh Hefner, December 28, 1968
From Montreux. Published in part in Playboy, January 1972.
HAVE you ever noticed how the head and ears of your Bunny resemble a butterfly in shape, with an eyespot on one hindwing?
Happy New Year.
Yours sincerely,
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
[Selected Letters 1940-1977, 439-440]
Copyright © 2000 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.
The Atlantic Monthly; April 2000; Nabokov's Butterflies, One Last Thought - 00.04; Volume 285, No. 4; page 75.