Stephenson Family Ties

“Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some

 potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain

—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken

 and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek

 will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and 

rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare

 flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and 

crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose

 the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.”

― Vladimir Nabokov 

Lectures on Russian Literature

Sweet Home, Prema Ja

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

Walter MacEwen