Day 5. Sending Planets Spinning

Arp-Madore 608-333 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

In “Good Readers and Good Writers,” Vladimir Nabokov images the writer as creator: the one “who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper’s rib.” For us as readers, that universe begins with the very first sentence, springing from nothing and conjuring everything.