Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009985, Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:54:05 -0700

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Re: odd moment in Lolita? (fwd) (fwd) (fwd) (fwd)
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Date: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:10 AM -0400
From: STADLEN@aol.com Anthony Stadlen
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: odd moment in Lolita? (fwd) (fwd) (fwd)

In a message dated 08/07/2004 19:47:09 GMT Standard Time,
chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu writes:


Of course Lo asks the question to learn the name of hotel, for the reasons
Ms.
Krimmel states. But that wasn't the subject of Brian's message. He was
remarking on the "oddity" of Lo refering to the "Enchanted Hunters" as
the hotel "where you raped me," because he thought such a statement
suggested a "strangely mature psychology."



But that thought is what is odd. As has been pointed out already, she is
speaking no more than the moral and legal truth, surely heightened for her
by her knowledge that her stepfather has raped her while knowing, but not
telling her, that her mother was dead.

Anthony Stadlen

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