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    • R.M. Pyle

    Robert Michael Pyle is a naturalist and writer whose 28 books cover territory from butterflies to Bigfoot. His essays, fiction, and poetry grow out of the Lower Columbia River, the Colorado tundra, and elsewhere in the real physical world.

    Contributions from R.M. Pyle

    Essay

    Nabokov's Butterflies

    By R.M. Pyle

    At the breakfast table recently, my partner Florence was reading the parlor game known as "The Proust Questionnaire." She put one of Proust's questions to me: "What is your idea of perfect happiness?" What came to mind was Nabokov's reply to Simona Moroni in a 1972 interview in Vogue: "What is the … Continue Reading