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"A most important source of creative imagination is a piercing pity—for the tin box in a waste patch, for the cigarette card from the series National Costumes trampled in the mud, for the poor, stray word repeated by the kind-hearted, weak, loving creature who has just been scolded for nothing—for all the trash of life which by means of a momentary alchemic distillation … is turned into something valuable and eternal."

 

Vladimir Nabokov

Detroit, MI. March, 2013.  ©Rachel Kalayjian. All rights reserved.

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