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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] QUERY Lolita scene
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:13:26 +0100
From: Didier Machu <didier.machu@univ-pau.fr>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References: <497724FE.9050702@utk.edu>


In these frightening places we paid ten for twins, flies queued
outside at the screenless door and successfully scrambled in, the
ashes of our predecessors still lingered in the ashtrays, a woman?s
hair lay on the pillow, one heard one?s neighbor hanging his coat in
his closet, the hangers were ingeniously fixed to their bars by coils
of wire so as to thwart theft, and, in crowning insult, the pictures
above the twin beds were identical twins. I also noticed that
commercial fashion was changing. There was a tendency for cabins to
fuse and gradually form the caravansary, and, lo (she was not
interested but the reader may be), a second story was added, and a
lobby grew in, and cars were removed to a communal garage, and the
motel reverted to the good old hotel. (II, 16).


Quoting Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU>:

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> Subject: QUERY Lolita scene
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:18:28 -0500
> From: Jim Tonn <jtonn@Princeton.EDU>
> Reply-To: jtonn@Princeton.EDU
> To: <nabokv-l@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> I seem to remember that there is a scene in Lolita in which Humbert
> notices that two pictures hanging in a motel room are identical. Can
> anyone who has read through recently confirm that this scene exists
> or provide context? Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
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