Jun 20, 2021
Whats your favourite insect, Frank?
Firefly, or moth, or mothling, or bug, or creature, or thing, or creature-thing, or thing-creature, or creature-thinging, or vermin, or vermite, or mite, or tachyon, or phyle, or metaphor, or pheromone. (N. B. Nabokov is very fond of this verb in insect form: see also "fleece," "stigma," and "pheromone.")
I have to confess it's from that book I hated in English class, where Nabokov also criticized Ulysses and Joyce's style was referred to as a "metaphor swamp" — which kind of feels like a backhanded compliment coming from a guy as obsessed with butterflies as Nabokov was. Anyway, "Firefly."
