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The caption below this picture states that it came from the Nabokov estate, which I found rather bizarre because I always found, like in Speak Memory, that Nabokov thought the pictures spoke for themselves. However, this picture is not as thought provoking as ones that he included in his Speak Memory book. In those, he had elements of the past, like his mother waving out a window or a baby carriage without him in it, or he had photos of himself sitting at a desk with many objects behind him. Strangly, this photo has only a boring blank wall behind him, making the viewer forced to just look at him. Nabokov is younger in this picture, and it is amazing the scribbles on this, for I wonder if Nabokov himself did this to give the photograph more substance? The butterflies still a present thought on him mind, and the lines above his head suggesting that his head was exploding even though he sat in an empty room.. maybe he wants the viewer of this photograph to think deeper as well. However, the caption on this photo could be wrong, and the drawings and scribbles on this photo could just be from some random person.