Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001510, Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:36:17 -0800

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Re: Lolita queries (fwd)
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EDITOR'S NOTE. Gennady Barabtarlo <gragb@showme.missouri.edu>, is the
author of _Phantom of Fact: A Reader's Guide to PNIN_ and _Aerial View:
Essays on Nabokov's Art and Metaphysics_.
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>>
>>Vitaly Kupisk (104361.1700@compuserve.com) takes a shot at it:
>>1) Hairy Humbert's hand, I presume, that pitiful pervert...
>
>Yes! This is entirely plausible, and well spotted
>

No -- it is entirely implausible, to my mind: why "small"? why
hermaphroditic? why a "total stranger"?

GB