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Re: VN galley slaves' birthdays
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A. Sklyarenko: "Marina's affair with Demon Veen started on his, her, and Daniel Veen's birthday, January 5, 1868, when she was twenty-four and both Veens thirty." (Ada, Part One, 2). January 5 was, I believe, Vera Nabokov's birthday.
JM: These relationships between calendar days, characters and real people are sometimes puzzling. Without checking it in the text... didn't Demon's airplane crash in April 23?
Sandy Klein and Barrie Karp sent links to different blogs. I extracted one sentence from one of them, but I shall refrain from making any comments:
"In Nabokov's book, Humbert had cultivated a deep passion for the elves in fairytale when he was young, resulting in his deprivation of real childhood playmates."
(from http://www.mysinchew.com/node/50816 Lolita complex Opinion 2011-01-04 18:43 by TAY TIAN YAN, Translated by DOMINIC LOH)
Nabokov was right when he once noted that it's Lolita who is famous, not he.
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JM: These relationships between calendar days, characters and real people are sometimes puzzling. Without checking it in the text... didn't Demon's airplane crash in April 23?
Sandy Klein and Barrie Karp sent links to different blogs. I extracted one sentence from one of them, but I shall refrain from making any comments:
"In Nabokov's book, Humbert had cultivated a deep passion for the elves in fairytale when he was young, resulting in his deprivation of real childhood playmates."
(from http://www.mysinchew.com/node/50816 Lolita complex Opinion 2011-01-04 18:43 by TAY TIAN YAN, Translated by DOMINIC LOH)
Nabokov was right when he once noted that it's Lolita who is famous, not he.
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