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“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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The blurb asks the questions about Humbert Humbert: "Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is ...more
Nabokov in Three Years
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This group will be reading Vladimir Nabokov's entire fictional oeuvre (plus his autobiography and two collections of essays) in chronological order. W ...more
The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
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