EDNOTE. Marianne Cotugno responds to NABOKV-L's  request for initial LOLITA
experiences. Although I did know of the Police sone "Don't stand too
close..." which was first pointed out to me by a student in my VN class, I
did not know there was a video.
   I am dredging my memory for my first LOLITA and hope to come up with
something. I encourage all of you to send in your recollections.

My first time reading Lolita was in a sophomore American literature class at Northern Illinois University, taught by one of the finest teachers I've known and the reason I took two degrees in English Literature, James McNiece.  He peeled the novel like an onion.  In our dorm, there was a tradition called "Nabokoving The Door."  Each dorm room door locked with a butterfly shaped key that was spaced beneath the doorknob precisely the width of the "Annotated Lolita" when the key was in the locked (lateral) position.  Thus, when one required privacy, particularly from one's roommate, one inserted the book between key and knob, which guaranteed the door could not be opened from the outside.  Of course, given the purpose for locking the door in most instances, the nature of the book seemed most apt.