Jerry Friedman replies to Jansy Mello:

 

Shade is killed before he can "wake at six tomorrow".  One
can see this is meaning that his other predictions are
equally false, or that only the "commonsense" predictions
are false; the supernatural ones are true.  As I've been
saying, I think the evidence is for the latter.

 

I'm glad you found a reconciliation of the contradiction
you found.  I'm on Alexandrov's side about the conclusion
we should draw from the "madeness" of Nabokov's writing.

 

I'm not going to argue about what problem /Lolita/ was
the solution to, but I will quote one sentence: "Nabokov
endows his characters with trivial, but determining traits,
to turn them into galley-slaves for his own designs."  I
see it the other way around: Since Nabokov's characters
are galley-slaves, he can endow them with whatever traits
he wants.

 

Jerry Friedman