What a marvelous Nabokov quote! The epigraph is a lens for the article--a book review of photographs of Sun Ra, but actually about Sun Ra's extra-terrestrial vi

What a marvelous Nabokov quote! The epigraph is a lens for the article--a book review of photographs of Sun Ra, but actually about Sun Ra's extra-terrestrial vision of himself and Black America--and serves as a good introduction of Sun Ra to the uninitiated. The writer tries to describe the sublime which cannot be explained, only understood, but does a good job nonetheless.