EDNOTE: The editor thanks Sam Schuman for this spoof of Linyov-style (The
Gift) reading.
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In a message dated 20/01/2006 01:49:35 GMT Standard
Time, nabokv-l@utk.edu
writes:
Lolita, first
published
in 1955 in Paris, tells the story of a middle-aged man, who falls in
love with a 12-year-old girl and marries her sick, widowed mother to
satisfy his erotic desires. Hemolests the girl in a Riviera hotel
while she's asleep, she wakens and he runs into the traffic and
dies.
Oh, really?
Anthony Stadlen
That's when she jumps out of the window, due to the fire, onto
the chessboard-like patio, and comes face to face with a criminal she
has sentenced to jail, who, unfortunately, she can't see since she was
blinded in that Riviera car/bike accident. Fortunately, the
culprit is beheaded, just before going before a firing squad, so never
gets to drive off in that little sedan, free at last, into the soft
mist where hill after hill made beauty of distance, and where there
was simply no saying what miracle might happen. Right?
--
Sam
Samuel Schuman
Chancellor
The University of Minnesota, Morris
Morris, MN 56267
schumans@morris.umn.edu
320-589-6020