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Sent to you by Fulmerford via Google Reader: SIGHTING: Humbert Humbert
in Sweet Valley High via nabolog by fulmerford on 2/16/10
The return of Sweet Valley High, with some of the characters grown
older, prompts thoughts of Humbert Humbert revisiting Mrs. Schiller for
this New Yorker blogger:Somehow the thought of all these glorified
young characters getting old puts me in mind of the final chapters
of "Lolita," when Humbert visits Lolita (now Dolly) to find her
“frankly and hugely pregnant” with a dog like a fat dolphin:Her pale
freckled cheeks were hollowed, and her bare shins and arms had lost all
their tan, so that the little hairs showed. She wore a brown,
sleeveless cotton dress and sloppy felt slippers.It's a scene of
horrible and excruciating diminution, made more agonizing by the fact
that Humbert sees how sordid her life is—her body is—but loves her
anyway. Of course, this isn’t Nabokov we’re talking
about.(Incidentally: my favorite Sweet Valley High title is Kidnapped
by the Cult!)
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in Sweet Valley High via nabolog by fulmerford on 2/16/10
The return of Sweet Valley High, with some of the characters grown
older, prompts thoughts of Humbert Humbert revisiting Mrs. Schiller for
this New Yorker blogger:Somehow the thought of all these glorified
young characters getting old puts me in mind of the final chapters
of "Lolita," when Humbert visits Lolita (now Dolly) to find her
“frankly and hugely pregnant” with a dog like a fat dolphin:Her pale
freckled cheeks were hollowed, and her bare shins and arms had lost all
their tan, so that the little hairs showed. She wore a brown,
sleeveless cotton dress and sloppy felt slippers.It's a scene of
horrible and excruciating diminution, made more agonizing by the fact
that Humbert sees how sordid her life is—her body is—but loves her
anyway. Of course, this isn’t Nabokov we’re talking
about.(Incidentally: my favorite Sweet Valley High title is Kidnapped
by the Cult!)
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