The creative imagination …

… In the Personal Library of Vladimir Nabokov Are Clues to the Esoteric Obsessions of the Supreme Esthete. | Observer. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… perhaps the single most thrilling object in the collection, one of the single most thrilling graven images I’ve encountered, the one book in the collection that most seemed to speak from beyond the grave and the graven realms, was a unique Nabokov book, one he created himself by hand, one never before seen by the world, and one that I believe discloses an important secret about his esoteric passion.