Dear list,

 

This line from the NYT Book Review posted earlier may more startling than it was intended to be:

 

"Only this Humbert is a woman and her nymphet is a fawn named Felix..."

A small point, but I think that HH never went so far as bestiality himself (despite the veiled insult to the Basque shepherd father of Mary Lore in Lolita). Perhaps the reviewer meant "faun"?

 

Andrea