Gaudi (The Alan Parsons Project album) Gaudi (The Alan Parsons Project album) Gaudi is the tenth album by The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1987. "Gaudi" refers to Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan Spanish architect, and the opening track references what is probably his best known building, la "Sagrada Família". "Closer to Heaven" and "Money Talks" were used in an episode of the third season of the TV series "Miami Vice", with "Paseo de Gracia" ("even though in Catalan -and officially- the exact name is Passeig de Gràcia") appearing in an episode in the show's fifth season. A with the same name based on the songs of
The Original of Laura The Original of Laura The Original of Laura is an incomplete novel by Vladimir Nabokov, which he was writing at the time of his death in 1977. It was finally published, after 30 years of private debate, on November 17, 2009. Nabokov had requested that the work be destroyed upon his death, but his family hesitated to carry out his wish to destroy an incomplete but perhaps important literary work. Over the next years its contents were viewed only by Nabokov's son, wife, and a few scholars. In April 2008, Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov announced plans to publish the work,