Saturday, November 06, 2004

Lolita LOL

There is a very funny line at the end of Lolita where Nabokov is talking about trying to get published. He receives a note advising if he'd changed
Lolita into a twelve-year-old lad and had him seduced by Humbert, a farmer, in a barn, amidst gaunt and arid surrounds, all this set forth in short, strong, "realistic" sentences ("He acts crazy. We all act crazy, I guess...")
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I picture Nobby in his study, off to one side the thousand carefully worked index cards, on a another a highly scientific and soporific book on butterflies and him with this note in the middle- coming to face with America.
Finally here's someone that is comfortable with the sex, what he doesn't know about is all this writing.


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