"Why don't you come with me, little girl,
On a magic carpet ride?"
– Steppenwolf lyrics
"I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,
in such a way as to superimpose
one part of the pattern upon another."
– Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory
See also Nabokov at Harvard in today's Crimson
and the Russian boxes of Henry James.
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