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Fwd: Re: Response re Jo Morgan re Michael Maar's evidence on the
Lolita/Lichberg issue.
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> ......It wasn't until I was in my forties that I remembered
> at least three specific instances from childhood of this sort of thing
> happening to me.......
>
> Andrew Brown
Hmmm........Very interesting but anti-intuitive.
This phenomenon is still unexplained and worthy of investigation.
Gwendolen's explanation - "I am glad to say that I have never seen a
spade." - is not the last word on the subject, as she well knew.
-Sandy Drescher
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:35 PM
> Subject: Jo Morgan re Michael Maar's evidence on the Lolita/Lichberg
> issue.
>
>
>> Re the 'outrage'Kunin expects will one day be unleashed over Michael
> Maar's
>> arguments about the connection between VN's Lolita and Lichberg's
>> minor
>> work.
>>
>> I am still waiting for Nabokov's many scholars and fans to show
>> sufficient
>> interest in my book "Solving Nabokov's Lolita Riddle" (2005). By
>> paying
>> careful attention to Nabokov's well-documented battle against Sigmund
> Freud
>> and his strategy of encrypting deliberate 'blunders' across his
>> memoirs
>> (Speak, Memory/Conclusive Evidence and Eugene Onegin)I have managed to
>> prove that Nabokov wrote Lolita as a
>> semi-autobiographical/semi-fictional
>> account of his own terrible incestuous abuse as a boy at the hands of
>> his
>> pedophilic Uncle Ruka.
>>
>> The dangerous confidence trick 'Nabokov the Magician' has pulled on
>> everyone explains: 1) the many gender-bending games the author played
>> around Humbert's 'twofold' nymphet (e.g. Lolita's 'boys knees, her
> 'butcher-
>> boy' pyjamas and 'tomboy shirt'); 2) the author's closing confession
>> in
> his
>> so-called 'novel' Lolita - "I have camouflaged what I could so as not
>> to
>> hurt people"; and 3) Humbert's sly agreement that Lolita can take
>> part in
>> the Beardsley school play provided that boys parts are taken by girls
>> parts. It also explains the blatant lie Nabokov told in his infamous
>> postscript "On a Book Entitled Lolita" - namely that a US publisher
>> had
>> once proposed he replace his 12 year old girl with a boy.
>>
>> The revelations contained in my book with one day make Maar's work
>> look
>> like the proverbial storm in a tea cup. Please take the time to
>> examine
>> aspects of my analysis on my website www.lolitariddle.com. You can
>> also
>> order copies of my book via the website, if you so wish.
>>
>> With Lolita turning 50 this month, isn't it past time for Nabokov's
>> 'time-
>> bomb' to finally go off?
>>
>> Jo Morgan
>>
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> ......It wasn't until I was in my forties that I remembered
> at least three specific instances from childhood of this sort of thing
> happening to me.......
>
> Andrew Brown
Hmmm........Very interesting but anti-intuitive.
This phenomenon is still unexplained and worthy of investigation.
Gwendolen's explanation - "I am glad to say that I have never seen a
spade." - is not the last word on the subject, as she well knew.
-Sandy Drescher
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:35 PM
> Subject: Jo Morgan re Michael Maar's evidence on the Lolita/Lichberg
> issue.
>
>
>> Re the 'outrage'Kunin expects will one day be unleashed over Michael
> Maar's
>> arguments about the connection between VN's Lolita and Lichberg's
>> minor
>> work.
>>
>> I am still waiting for Nabokov's many scholars and fans to show
>> sufficient
>> interest in my book "Solving Nabokov's Lolita Riddle" (2005). By
>> paying
>> careful attention to Nabokov's well-documented battle against Sigmund
> Freud
>> and his strategy of encrypting deliberate 'blunders' across his
>> memoirs
>> (Speak, Memory/Conclusive Evidence and Eugene Onegin)I have managed to
>> prove that Nabokov wrote Lolita as a
>> semi-autobiographical/semi-fictional
>> account of his own terrible incestuous abuse as a boy at the hands of
>> his
>> pedophilic Uncle Ruka.
>>
>> The dangerous confidence trick 'Nabokov the Magician' has pulled on
>> everyone explains: 1) the many gender-bending games the author played
>> around Humbert's 'twofold' nymphet (e.g. Lolita's 'boys knees, her
> 'butcher-
>> boy' pyjamas and 'tomboy shirt'); 2) the author's closing confession
>> in
> his
>> so-called 'novel' Lolita - "I have camouflaged what I could so as not
>> to
>> hurt people"; and 3) Humbert's sly agreement that Lolita can take
>> part in
>> the Beardsley school play provided that boys parts are taken by girls
>> parts. It also explains the blatant lie Nabokov told in his infamous
>> postscript "On a Book Entitled Lolita" - namely that a US publisher
>> had
>> once proposed he replace his 12 year old girl with a boy.
>>
>> The revelations contained in my book with one day make Maar's work
>> look
>> like the proverbial storm in a tea cup. Please take the time to
>> examine
>> aspects of my analysis on my website www.lolitariddle.com. You can
>> also
>> order copies of my book via the website, if you so wish.
>>
>> With Lolita turning 50 this month, isn't it past time for Nabokov's
>> 'time-
>> bomb' to finally go off?
>>
>> Jo Morgan
>>
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