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Date: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:20 AM -0400
From: STADLEN@aol.com
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Subject: Re: odd moment in Lolita? (fwd)
In a message dated 07/07/2004 05:53:52 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:
Is it too naive to suppose that Lolita asks the question because she wants
to know the answer?
At the hotel she must have had much on her mind more vital than attending
to its name. She can guess the name from vaguely remembering it and from
her expectation/hope that it is exactly the name of the play, which, for
her, confirms Quilty's interest in her as being of long standing. Her
reaction to learning that indeed it was The Enchanted Hunters is just what
one would expect - she's ecstatic.
And for the reader it's another illustration of Humbert's blindness.
Mary Krimmel Mary Krimmel <mary@krimmel.net>
Indeed. It seems very odd to regard this as an odd moment in "Lolita". Why
is it that one has to turn to "Reading Lolita in Tehran", or to Mary
Krimmel, for an ordinarily sensitive and moral response to the book?
Anthony Stadlen
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Date: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:20 AM -0400
From: STADLEN@aol.com
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Subject: Re: odd moment in Lolita? (fwd)
In a message dated 07/07/2004 05:53:52 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:
Is it too naive to suppose that Lolita asks the question because she wants
to know the answer?
At the hotel she must have had much on her mind more vital than attending
to its name. She can guess the name from vaguely remembering it and from
her expectation/hope that it is exactly the name of the play, which, for
her, confirms Quilty's interest in her as being of long standing. Her
reaction to learning that indeed it was The Enchanted Hunters is just what
one would expect - she's ecstatic.
And for the reader it's another illustration of Humbert's blindness.
Mary Krimmel Mary Krimmel <mary@krimmel.net>
Indeed. It seems very odd to regard this as an odd moment in "Lolita". Why
is it that one has to turn to "Reading Lolita in Tehran", or to Mary
Krimmel, for an ordinarily sensitive and moral response to the book?
Anthony Stadlen
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D. Barton Johnson
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