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Lolita, Butterflies, & Tennis
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>From kentapscott@hotmail.com
Re the message below, that "Net Work" word play in the title to a
review
made me shiver slightly as I realized that the lepidopteral imagery in
_Lolita_ is surely connected to the importance of tennis in that novel.
Dolly (is she ever addressed directly in the novel, in speech at least,
as
Lolita? I don't think so, although it does happen constantly in
Kubrick's
movie) is many times likened to a butterfly about to be captured in that
novel (and the allusions are often quite sly - e.g the times when she's
entranced by sticky, sweet foods, bananas, etc.), and all the business
in
the book about tennis rackets and tennis is certainly tangent to this. I
had
always attributed the importance of tennis in _Lolita_ to VN's personal
interest in the game, but "net work" certainly works in both areas, the
tennis racket being morphologically identical to a butterfly net, and
Lolita
is the elusive prey par excellence.
-KT
>
>-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Nabokov's Blues Date: Mon, 19
>Feb 2001 12:44:02 -0600 From: Suellen Stringer-Hye Organization: Vanderbilt
>University To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU CC: chtodel@gte.net
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>I am currently working on a new VNCollation (expect it around 5/23). In the
>meantime, I thought I would send along this list of headlines from reviews
>of "Nabokov's Blues" as my trivial contribution to a more active Nabokv-L.
>
>Humbert's Humming-Birds
Chasing Nabokov's Elusive and Endangered True Love
>Got Those Old Butterfly Blues
The High Ridges of Knowledge
The Butterfly Effect
Blue Book Value
Net Work Nabokov's Love
Vlad the Impaler
>
>
>
>
>
>Suellen Stringer-Hye Jean and Alexander Heard Library Vanderbilt University
>stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu
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>From kentapscott@hotmail.com
Re the message below, that "Net Work" word play in the title to a
review
made me shiver slightly as I realized that the lepidopteral imagery in
_Lolita_ is surely connected to the importance of tennis in that novel.
Dolly (is she ever addressed directly in the novel, in speech at least,
as
Lolita? I don't think so, although it does happen constantly in
Kubrick's
movie) is many times likened to a butterfly about to be captured in that
novel (and the allusions are often quite sly - e.g the times when she's
entranced by sticky, sweet foods, bananas, etc.), and all the business
in
the book about tennis rackets and tennis is certainly tangent to this. I
had
always attributed the importance of tennis in _Lolita_ to VN's personal
interest in the game, but "net work" certainly works in both areas, the
tennis racket being morphologically identical to a butterfly net, and
Lolita
is the elusive prey par excellence.
-KT
>
>-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Nabokov's Blues Date: Mon, 19
>Feb 2001 12:44:02 -0600 From: Suellen Stringer-Hye Organization: Vanderbilt
>University To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU CC: chtodel@gte.net
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>I am currently working on a new VNCollation (expect it around 5/23). In the
>meantime, I thought I would send along this list of headlines from reviews
>of "Nabokov's Blues" as my trivial contribution to a more active Nabokv-L.
>
>Humbert's Humming-Birds
Chasing Nabokov's Elusive and Endangered True Love
>Got Those Old Butterfly Blues
The High Ridges of Knowledge
The Butterfly Effect
Blue Book Value
Net Work Nabokov's Love
Vlad the Impaler
>
>
>
>
>
>Suellen Stringer-Hye Jean and Alexander Heard Library Vanderbilt University
>stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu
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