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From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 12:28 PM
Subject: Roberto Calasso on VN

To the List,

In his recently published Literature and the Gods Roberto Calasso (Ruins of Kash, Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony) has a lovely passage on Nabokov 's Lolita  ( "the most recent, majestic, and dazzling celebration of the Nymph") in the chapter "Mental Waters."

Like his other works, this one astonishes and delights.

Carolyn