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Date: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:08 AM -0700
From: Mark Bennett <mab@straussandasher.com>
To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
Subject: RE: Re: odd moment in Lolita? (fwd) (fwd)
I believe Ms. Krimmel misconstrues the nature of the inquiry. Of course
Lo asks the question to learn the name of hotel, for the reasons Ms.
Krimmel states. But that wasn't the subject of Brian's message. He was
remarking on the "oddity" of Lo refering to the "Enchanted Hunters" as
the hotel "where you raped me," because he thought such a statement
suggested a "strangely mature psychology."
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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
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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 10:08 AM -0700
From: Mark Bennett <mab@straussandasher.com>
To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
Subject: RE: Re: odd moment in Lolita? (fwd) (fwd)
I believe Ms. Krimmel misconstrues the nature of the inquiry. Of course
Lo asks the question to learn the name of hotel, for the reasons Ms.
Krimmel states. But that wasn't the subject of Brian's message. He was
remarking on the "oddity" of Lo refering to the "Enchanted Hunters" as
the hotel "where you raped me," because he thought such a statement
suggested a "strangely mature psychology."
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From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
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Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:09 AM
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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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