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Re: SIGHTING: Charlie Chaplin and Humbert in LO
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I was struck, when I read this in The Spectator, by the following passage
about Charlie Chaplin:
"He ordered 342 takes over a two-year period of a single shot in City
Lights -- the blind flower-seller handing over a bunch of violets to the Little
Tramp. Was this perfectionism? A manifestation of obsessive compulsive
disorder? Or was he behaving like a simple power-crazed brute?"
The number 342, as we know, plays a mysterious role in Lolita: it is the
house number in Lawn Street; the room number in the Enchanted Hunters hotel;
and the number of "hotels, motels and tourist homes" Humbert "registered,
if not actually stayed at" between July 5 and November 18, while trying to
trace his persecutor (Quilty).
A "two-year period" is also significant in Lolita.
Could Nabokov have known about the repeated takes of the City Lights shot?
Anthony Stadlen
"Oakleigh"
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Tel.: +44 (0) 20 8888 6857
For Existential Psychotherapy and Inner Circle Seminars see:
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In a message dated 22/04/2014 15:15:27 GMT Daylight Time,
nabokv-l@HOLYCROSS.EDU writes:
Barrie Karp sends the following reference, spotted in The Spectator:
Charlie Chaplin was a suspicious and angry man. His hubris had no limits,
nor his interest in young women. Did he inspire Nabokov’s Lolita?...
_more»_
(http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9179261/charlie-chaplin-by-peter-ackroyd-review/)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9179261/charlie-chaplin-by-peter-ackroyd-re
view/
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about Charlie Chaplin:
"He ordered 342 takes over a two-year period of a single shot in City
Lights -- the blind flower-seller handing over a bunch of violets to the Little
Tramp. Was this perfectionism? A manifestation of obsessive compulsive
disorder? Or was he behaving like a simple power-crazed brute?"
The number 342, as we know, plays a mysterious role in Lolita: it is the
house number in Lawn Street; the room number in the Enchanted Hunters hotel;
and the number of "hotels, motels and tourist homes" Humbert "registered,
if not actually stayed at" between July 5 and November 18, while trying to
trace his persecutor (Quilty).
A "two-year period" is also significant in Lolita.
Could Nabokov have known about the repeated takes of the City Lights shot?
Anthony Stadlen
"Oakleigh"
2A Alexandra Avenue
GB - London N22 7XE
Tel.: +44 (0) 20 8888 6857
For Existential Psychotherapy and Inner Circle Seminars see:
_http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com_ (http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/)
In a message dated 22/04/2014 15:15:27 GMT Daylight Time,
nabokv-l@HOLYCROSS.EDU writes:
Barrie Karp sends the following reference, spotted in The Spectator:
Charlie Chaplin was a suspicious and angry man. His hubris had no limits,
nor his interest in young women. Did he inspire Nabokov’s Lolita?...
_more»_
(http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9179261/charlie-chaplin-by-peter-ackroyd-review/)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9179261/charlie-chaplin-by-peter-ackroyd-re
view/
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