Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0000762, Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:52:39 -0700

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Lolita-mania
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EDITORIAL NOTE. Priscilla Meyer (Wesleyan) probes the outlying fringes of
Lolita-mania with the following.
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Another gem: one of my students was in Thailand last year. He was
staying on the island of Ko Samui, where he was engrossed in reading Pale
Fire. The name of his flotel or whatever it was turned out to be "Lolita
Bungaloes," and this because the Thai woman who ran it was named Lolita. I
think this moves the VN-tracking business too far into the common language
of the world to be considered a "reference."