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Lolita's Subjectivity
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MR: For me, Jansy's notion of absence-as-presence seems most akin to my
experience of the book. But I have only read it cover-to-cover twice,
and it may be that Suellen's more thorough immersion in the book has
revealed to her an actual presence that I have not yet discerned.
(Insert here VN's comments about the botanist specializing in lilies.)
When I mentioned accessing Lo's subjectivity, I was asking myself, can I
think as Dolores thinks? Can I know what she was thinking as these
events happened? For me, the answer is only 'yes' if I am speaking very
generally--I was once a child, so I can understand the tragedy of a
broken childhood. I do not, however, feel like I can get inside
Dolores's mind to anywhere near the extent that I can enter HH's.
SSH: absence-as presence is a very Nabokovian notion, No? The sky
BETWEEN the branches, the infinity of time BETWEEN beats. No wonder
then, that the "very poetic girl" in Lolita is constructed of this
dreamspace:>)
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experience of the book. But I have only read it cover-to-cover twice,
and it may be that Suellen's more thorough immersion in the book has
revealed to her an actual presence that I have not yet discerned.
(Insert here VN's comments about the botanist specializing in lilies.)
When I mentioned accessing Lo's subjectivity, I was asking myself, can I
think as Dolores thinks? Can I know what she was thinking as these
events happened? For me, the answer is only 'yes' if I am speaking very
generally--I was once a child, so I can understand the tragedy of a
broken childhood. I do not, however, feel like I can get inside
Dolores's mind to anywhere near the extent that I can enter HH's.
SSH: absence-as presence is a very Nabokovian notion, No? The sky
BETWEEN the branches, the infinity of time BETWEEN beats. No wonder
then, that the "very poetic girl" in Lolita is constructed of this
dreamspace:>)
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