MR: Jansy, my impression is that the author of the article interviewed VN himself, so this is probably all the context available.

Here's an entertaining VN quip I hadn't seen before:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Av4xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IOUFAAAAIBAJ&dq=lolita nabokov&pg=6705,2034481

Matt

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