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Subject: McNab spotted in Iran apparently
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030721&s=ozick072103
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The Rule of the Bus
by Cynthia Ozick
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In her covert seminar, Nafisi's retort to these depredations was literary generalship. Her allies were Nabokov, Fitzgerald, James, and Austen--each of whom yields a powerful refraction of internal freedom and cultural despotism, of autonomy and usurpation. "The desperate truth of Lolita's story is not the rape of a twelve-year-old by a dirty old man," Nafisi argues, "but the confiscation of one individual's life by another.... Nabokov, through his portrayal of Humbert, had exposed all solipsists who take over other people's lives."
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Regards to all,
Eric Yost
NYC