Mind on the Run

Notes and observations

Monday, July 29, 2013

Pale Fire connections

Nova Zembla
is the name in Dutch for...

Novaya Zemlya
where in 1961 the USSR detonated history's largest nuclear explosion...

the Tsar Bomba.

Bombycilla
is the genus of birds better known as the

waxwing.



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