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1 posted on 02/28/2013 3:55:21 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

That book by Nabokov.


2 posted on 02/28/2013 3:59:53 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

The coloring book edition was stolen.


7 posted on 02/28/2013 4:07:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Borges; Revolting cat!

Pussy Riot II - Electric Vibaroo?


9 posted on 02/28/2013 4:11:54 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Borges
"“Lolita” (1995)"

Uhh..no. The book did NOT come out in 1995. Maybe 1965...not sure exactly.

Movie in '95 maybe. Most def not the book.

10 posted on 02/28/2013 4:14:45 PM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Borges

11 posted on 02/28/2013 4:17:11 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Borges

Quite interesting, because Nabokov figures prominently in Stephen Hunter’s latest Bob Lee Swagger novel, The Third Bullet.


16 posted on 02/28/2013 4:38:00 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Borges

Lolita was written in English, in the American idiom. It is, of course, a tragedy with intellectual profundity and contains a subtle wink or a humorous reference on every page. The pedophile Humbert Humbert never grasped that he was being manipulated by the ‘nymphette” Lolita (Dolores Haze) and her other secret pedophile paramour, Claire Quilty. It is sick and beautiful and devious and romantic and ironic to the extreme. These Cossacks obviously cannot appreciate great literature.

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul.”


25 posted on 02/28/2013 6:51:26 PM PST by Unknowing (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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