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Re: a clever rif f on Nabokov’s “Lolita”...
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Dear list,
This line from the NYT Book Review posted earlier may more startling than it
was intended to be:
"Only this Humbert is a woman and her nymphet is a fawn named Felix..."
A small point, but I think that HH never went so far as bestiality himself
(despite the veiled insult to the Basque shepherd father of Mary Lore in
Lolita). Perhaps the reviewer meant "faun"?
Andrea
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This line from the NYT Book Review posted earlier may more startling than it
was intended to be:
"Only this Humbert is a woman and her nymphet is a fawn named Felix..."
A small point, but I think that HH never went so far as bestiality himself
(despite the veiled insult to the Basque shepherd father of Mary Lore in
Lolita). Perhaps the reviewer meant "faun"?
Andrea
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