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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
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> Keeping up with the "creepy" theme, I read earlier in this letter train
> something by somebody about how the angel scene is the most disturbing
> Nabokovian the've ever read. Immediately I was reminded of the scene in
Ada
> when Van sodomizes the young boy in one of the whore houses (forgive me I
do
> not have a copy of Ada with me and so exact quoting and page numbers I
> cannot give). Ada of course is filled with incest and other grotesqueries
> (not a word I"m sure) but this scene with the boy who ate too many green
> apples (see the passage) is nothing short of stomach turning.It is not
only
> very disturbing by VN standards, but by just about everyone's standards.
Any
> comments?
> Dane Gill
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From: "Dane Gill" <pennyparkerpark@hotmail.com>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> Greetings
> Keeping up with the "creepy" theme, I read earlier in this letter train
> something by somebody about how the angel scene is the most disturbing
> Nabokovian the've ever read. Immediately I was reminded of the scene in
Ada
> when Van sodomizes the young boy in one of the whore houses (forgive me I
do
> not have a copy of Ada with me and so exact quoting and page numbers I
> cannot give). Ada of course is filled with incest and other grotesqueries
> (not a word I"m sure) but this scene with the boy who ate too many green
> apples (see the passage) is nothing short of stomach turning.It is not
only
> very disturbing by VN standards, but by just about everyone's standards.
Any
> comments?
> Dane Gill
>
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