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Smith's On Beauty via nabolog by fulmerford on 4/14/10
From page 315 of Zadie Smith's immensely pleasurable, terribly funny,
aptly titled On Beauty:
She did it. She jumped off the bed and into his lap. His erection was
blatant, but first she coolly drank the rest of his wine, pressing down
on him as Lolita did on Humbert, as if he were just a chair she
happened to sit on. No doubt she had read Lolita. And then her arm went
round the back of his neck and Lolita turned into a temptress (maybe
she had learned from Mrs Robinson too), lasciviously sucking his ear,
and then from temptress she moved to affectionate high-school
girlfriend, sweetly kissing the corner of his mouth. But what kind of
sweetheart was this? He had barely started to return her kiss when she
commenced groaning in a disconcertingly enthusiastic manner, and this
was followed by a strange fluting business with her tongue, catching
Howard off guard.Smith, incidentally, is 3 for 3: her two previous
novels also include a Nabokov reference. (Also check out her essay on
Barthes and Nabokov in Changing My Mind.)
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Smith's On Beauty via nabolog by fulmerford on 4/14/10
From page 315 of Zadie Smith's immensely pleasurable, terribly funny,
aptly titled On Beauty:
She did it. She jumped off the bed and into his lap. His erection was
blatant, but first she coolly drank the rest of his wine, pressing down
on him as Lolita did on Humbert, as if he were just a chair she
happened to sit on. No doubt she had read Lolita. And then her arm went
round the back of his neck and Lolita turned into a temptress (maybe
she had learned from Mrs Robinson too), lasciviously sucking his ear,
and then from temptress she moved to affectionate high-school
girlfriend, sweetly kissing the corner of his mouth. But what kind of
sweetheart was this? He had barely started to return her kiss when she
commenced groaning in a disconcertingly enthusiastic manner, and this
was followed by a strange fluting business with her tongue, catching
Howard off guard.Smith, incidentally, is 3 for 3: her two previous
novels also include a Nabokov reference. (Also check out her essay on
Barthes and Nabokov in Changing My Mind.)
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