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Re: What does VN rail against? (fwd)
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Phil Howerton : howerton@vnet.net
Now that Mr. Schiff has signed on, I wonder if I could ask him a very
politely meant question.
Having seen his film, I wonder if he gave any thought to filming Lolita
as a sort of fable. With Nabokov's Humbert's mother/angel rising up
into the heavens, lots of humor, Bill Murray playing Quilty and dying
tragically/comicly, etc.; with lots of actual reading from the book,
leaving the sex mostly to the imagination. I didn't realize until I saw
his movie how much I had always thought of Lolita as a fable and not a
realistic tale.
Phil Howerton
Now that Mr. Schiff has signed on, I wonder if I could ask him a very
politely meant question.
Having seen his film, I wonder if he gave any thought to filming Lolita
as a sort of fable. With Nabokov's Humbert's mother/angel rising up
into the heavens, lots of humor, Bill Murray playing Quilty and dying
tragically/comicly, etc.; with lots of actual reading from the book,
leaving the sex mostly to the imagination. I didn't realize until I saw
his movie how much I had always thought of Lolita as a fable and not a
realistic tale.
Phil Howerton