Signs and Symbols - Vladimir Nabokov

"of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer"

The image is a detail from Bruegel's "The Triumph of Death." The mother seems to slightly misremember it.

You can read it here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/05/15/symbols-and-signs
For whatever reason, The New Yorker decided to reverse the title when they published it.

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