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EDNOTE. Just what those folks at the Florida library were looking for...
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:58:46 -0400
From: "Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
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MY HUMBERT MOMENT
New York Press, NY - 55 minutes ago
[1] http://www.nypress.com/18/38/news&columns/.cfm[2]
WWW.NYPRESS.COM | SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
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MY HUMBERT MOMENT
By Jonathan Ames
NEWS & COLUMNS
A friend of mine sent me _Lolita_ in the summer of 1985 when I was
21 and working as a camp counselor in the mountains of New Hampshire.
He must have sent it to me as a gag or a prank or a cruel joke. As I
read the book, I became oppressively aware of the beauty of the young
nymphets who were in vast supply all around me. I subsequently
developed something of a crush on a 12-year-old, mostly to torture
myself, much in the same way that for years I've imagined jumping in
front of approaching subway cars.
Well, one day this 12-year-old leaped onto my back and wrapped her
legs around me. This was all very unexpectedI was caught off-guard.
She jumped on me because she was being pursued by her male peers.
When the boys saw that she was safely perched on my back, they peeled
away. Then she ran after them so she could be chased some more. I was
left standing there, rather shaken. I then fictionalized this
incident in my novel _The Extra Man_.
So what has Lolita meant to me? I'm not sure really, but it
inspired, in more ways than one, actually two ways, a scene in my own
work. The two ways: I had an actual Humbert Humbert moment and then I
paid homage to Nabokov by writing about it.
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:58:46 -0400
From: "Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
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Subject: MY HUMBERT MOMENT ...
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MY HUMBERT MOMENT
New York Press, NY - 55 minutes ago
[1] http://www.nypress.com/18/38/news&columns/.cfm[2]
WWW.NYPRESS.COM | SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
-------------------------
MY HUMBERT MOMENT
By Jonathan Ames
NEWS & COLUMNS
A friend of mine sent me _Lolita_ in the summer of 1985 when I was
21 and working as a camp counselor in the mountains of New Hampshire.
He must have sent it to me as a gag or a prank or a cruel joke. As I
read the book, I became oppressively aware of the beauty of the young
nymphets who were in vast supply all around me. I subsequently
developed something of a crush on a 12-year-old, mostly to torture
myself, much in the same way that for years I've imagined jumping in
front of approaching subway cars.
Well, one day this 12-year-old leaped onto my back and wrapped her
legs around me. This was all very unexpectedI was caught off-guard.
She jumped on me because she was being pursued by her male peers.
When the boys saw that she was safely perched on my back, they peeled
away. Then she ran after them so she could be chased some more. I was
left standing there, rather shaken. I then fictionalized this
incident in my novel _The Extra Man_.
So what has Lolita meant to me? I'm not sure really, but it
inspired, in more ways than one, actually two ways, a scene in my own
work. The two ways: I had an actual Humbert Humbert moment and then I
paid homage to Nabokov by writing about it.
VOLUME 18, ISSUE 38http://www.nypress.com/18/38/news&columns/.cfm[3]
Links:
------
[1] http://www.nypress.com/
[2] http://www.nypress.com/18/38/news&columns/.cfm
[3] http://www.nypress.com/18/38/news&columns/.cfm
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