Vladimir Nabokov

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Re: Pale Fire and Lolita: nympholepts and poetic epiphanies
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Query: Erica Jong, addressing Lolita's readership, emphasizes that the "erection of small dorsal hairs is the issue here and not, as is commonly assumed, other sorts of tumescence," thereby offering a kind of feminine endorsement to the physical delights which must arise through the practice of art and science, independently of other lachrimal and pilous reactions. Nevertheless, Nabokov's authoritative assessment remains a puzzle to me: why is the "little shiver behind the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and science"? (Cf. LL 54)



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