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Re: Nabokov and Twelve-Year-Old Girls ...PS
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James Twiggs[.In addition to Norquist, Matt Roth and Jansy Mello have responded to my message of 2/20/12...]
JM: I skipped a few lines from my posting to James Twiggs. The entire paragraph is reproduced below in a PS: :
"It's been a rare pleasure to exchange a few ideas with you today at the N-List.You must know that I disagree with your views related to Maar's book (I wrote about it in the N-L some months ago) or to the wild application of psychoanalytic insights to "reveal" a writer's unconfessed fantasies. With important reservations, this practice may result in the same kind of criminal 'acting out' that leads from the domain of fantasy onto the external world (in "The Enchanter," the mental torture that results from opposing the compelling force of an impulse, has been masterfully represented. The "davenport-Carmen-apple" seduction in "Lolita" gets almost there.) .
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JM: I skipped a few lines from my posting to James Twiggs. The entire paragraph is reproduced below in a PS: :
"It's been a rare pleasure to exchange a few ideas with you today at the N-List.You must know that I disagree with your views related to Maar's book (I wrote about it in the N-L some months ago) or to the wild application of psychoanalytic insights to "reveal" a writer's unconfessed fantasies. With important reservations, this practice may result in the same kind of criminal 'acting out' that leads from the domain of fantasy onto the external world (in "The Enchanter," the mental torture that results from opposing the compelling force of an impulse, has been masterfully represented. The "davenport-Carmen-apple" seduction in "Lolita" gets almost there.) .
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