JM: I'd just confessed to my fascination with
coincidences after posting a bit on painting, cartoons and Axel Rex. Now
we're kindly invited to write a comment on the marvellous lines and colors
blossoming into Nabokov's faces, one in particular with shadows, nerves and
a suggestion of road-maps, by the artist Axel Roy. If I had any
artistic talent and expertise, as many fellow Nab-List members possess, I'd
write more expansively about Axel Roy's dramatic portraiture on Nabokov's face.
I must limit myself to say that "Nabokov" with its almost devilish eyes and
mysterious half-smile is the best depiction I've yet seen.