1. "Comparative Paradise"

"Every day including Sundays, I would spend up to ten hours studying the structure of certain butterflies in the laboratorial paradise of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology: but three times a week I stayed there only till noon and then tore myself away from microscope and camera lucida to travel to Wellesley."

The room has changed surprisingly little over the decades elapsed: heavy wood, heavy liquids, heavy odour all endure well. I looked out the window trying to see things framed the way VN saw them when he tore himself away from microscope and camera lucida to stretch the gaze, as it were, but nothing bridging the time-gap entered the sight.

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1: THE GRAVEYARDS | 2: PARIS | 3: CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
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