What I'm going to study for the test. I have no idea what is going to be on the test but I hope that by making this post it will help me memorize the stuff that I think is important.

• Madeline Lolita=Pseudolucia Humbert
• The style of Lolita is similar to that of a chess game. It is more about the movement of the pieces on the board. The most important figure is the queen. This is related to Mick's presentation and he told us that Lolita doesn't start out as a queen but is a pawn. By moving to the back row of the other player's board (I'm not actually sure if these are the logistics of that happens) she then becomes a queen
• The seven aspects of what happens in Nebukov: parody, coincidence, patterning, allusion, a work within the work, staging of the novel, authorial voice
• Other authors with an obsession for young girls: Poe, Carroll, Dickens (he collected litte red riding hood stories)
• Nymphet- an immature but sexually attractive girl, attractive to a certain type of man. She is 9-14 years old. Nonhuman.
• Psyche- Now means mind. Originally meant soul. Entomologically means image.
• Scholarly fantasy- That there can be a biobliography, the footnotes become a part of the text.
• Nacreous- resembling nacre; lustrousl pearly
• Key words while reading Lolita: change, transformation, metamorphosis
• Art: Curiosity, kindness, ectasy, tenderness
• Literary references in Lolita- Carroll, Poe, Joyce, Shakespeare
• Ideal reader- Suffers from insomnia because he is always reading
• John Ray Jr. PHD.- Invention of Nebokov Jr. Jr.
• References in Reading Lolita in Tehran- Daisy Miller, Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice
• 342- Number of hotels visited. Hotel number in the Enchanted Huntress
• William Wilson by Edgar Allen Poe is similar to Humbert Humbert
• Coincidences: Quilty used to date Charolette, both HH and Q were born in 1911, he wrote plays about Lolita called "The Little Nymph" and "The Lady Who Loved Lightening"
• Nebokov always wrote himself into his books similar to: M. Night Shamalan, Rembrandt, Hitchcock, Steven King, Quentin Tarentino.
• The smartest people in the world spend their time with art because there isn't time to waste.
• "Art for art's sake is the best thing that a human can do." Walter Pater
• Whistler's mother- A famous painting by James Whistler. Everybody believed that it was about his mother but it was really a study of black and white, shades and light.
• Lolita and Abduction- Humbert took her from her childhood. Quilty took her from Humbert.
• Supernaturally receptive- How the reader needs to be to grasp all the foreshadowing.
• Robert Davies- Believes that Lolita is actuall about the abduction and rape of an old English man.
• 1 yr- Amount of time HH should be able to walk through the green fields.
• Obsession is- pathological, corupt, and digesting
• Style is the subject according the Lolita and Nabokov.
• Aesthetic- Perceived/ felt
• Beauty- What is beautiful
• Bliss- What we're to expeience while reading.
• Invisible Man- Read while listening to Bitches Brew.
• Kassidy- Names in Lolita, Lolita-Rita- the pearl of the book

My Thoughts on Lolita

Reading Lolita reminds me of the first time I tried to read "Crime and Punishment." It started out as a fun, fast read that I was happily enjoying. However I suddenly found that the more I read the more I began to think and feel like the main character within the novel. This is distressing with regards to both Lolita and C & P. With Crime and Punishment I found feeling depressed, thinking peculair thoughts, and I eventually had to put the book down for awhile because I just couldn't take it anymore. With Lolita my experience was a little different. While I did have the constant narration of my actions going on within my head the narration was more eloquent than slightly deranged. I found my conversation to become significantly more intelligent. I was craving gin (I made that last one up.) Still though while reading Lolita I became a completely different person. Fourtunatly this person was not so strange and depressed that I had to take a break from the novel. I must say that I really loved the work and I think that I might try to read more Nebukov over the break and see if I can not try to sound a little bit smarter to impress my parents.

As far as the subject matter is concerned I have already stated my opinion. I also aggree with Carly that the story is almost to phenomenal to make the subject all that believeable. I would also like to make one more point and that would be: I am sure that we have all read a few novels about the Holocaust and that does not mean that we aggree with the Holocaust only that sometimes it makes the novels more interesting. Or at least it is only a disturbing background for a great narrative.

One final point. I really feel sorry for Humbert Humbert. His worship of Lolita, who is in my opinion just a spoiled little girl, leaves him powerless and catering to her every whim. She can get whatever she wants from him. It seems to me that he is also unwilling to force himself upon her. I do not recall a moment in which Lolita says firmly, "No, I will not do that." Instead Humbert must beg her or buy her things but he never, except for one scene hits her. His only threat is that if they are seperated she will have to go to an orphanage in circumstances that she would find unbearable. Don't get me wrong I do think that Humbert Humbert ruins Lolita's life but I think that she also ruins his. She is his life whereas he is just a nuissance that she is trying to get rid. I would aggree with Dr. Sexson that this is really a very sad story. Both Humbert and Lo never really get anywhere in life and neither does any other character in the novel. No one ever has an uplifting change in their life they just simply miserably exist and then die.

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A favorite passage of mine within "Lolita"
pg. 53
"Or is it because I can image so well the rest of the colorful classroon around my dolores and hazy darling: Grace and her ripe pimiples; Ginny and her lagging leg; Gordon, the haggard masturbator; Duncan, the foul-smelling clown; nail-biting agnes; Viola, of the blackehads and the bouncing bust; pretty Rosaline; dark Mary Rose; adorable Stella, who has let strangers tough her, Ralph, who bullies and steals; Irving, for whon I am sorry. And there she is there, lost in the middle, gnawing a penciel, detested by teachers, all the boy's eyes on her hair and neck, my Lolita."

I know it isn't the most beautiful passage within this work but I really enjoy it simply because it is such an accurate and eloquent description of that it is like to be that age, the Jr. High age. He captures the foul smells, bullies, and pimples and yet makes it an extremely beautiful description.

Notes from 11/21
Literary references within "Lolita"
Poe
Carroll
Joyce
Shakespeare

The ideal reader suffers from insomnia because he always reads.
In the story it is important to note the difference between Richard F. Schiller, the man she marries and Quilty, her abductor.
If you are an active reader you can discover who her abductor is before it is actually revealed within the text.
The author of the forward is John Ray Jr. P.H.D.
Jr. Jr., Nebukov's invention
The annotator is a real person though

Fate plays an important role in this novel.
McFate is frequently mentioned
This is a reference to McBeth by Shakespeare, the master of fate
On the list of students in Lolita's classroom there is an Aubrey McFate also
This is then a reference to a decadente erotic artist names Aubrey Beardsley, Beardsley being the school where Humbert takes Lolita

"The Professional" a movie with a Lolita-type story

An important figure within thie work is the conjurer: soucerer, magician, Humber Humbert, expert writer who eludes just saying what is goin on.

Lolita is really Humbert Humbert's own invention, not a real person, an eternal Lolita. He only really loves her physically.

Finally a professor has admitted what I have been dying to hear. If only other teachers would take the hint!
"Bibliography is a scholarly fantasy." Dr. Sexson.

Characteristics of a nymphette- age 9-14, not necessarily good looking, not really human
Even a foot note is part of the text itself.

Notes from 11/16/06
Lolita
The style is similar to that of a chess game. It's about the movement of chess pieces on the board.
Chess- the most important is the queen (Lolita?) and you must abduct the queen
The seven aspects of what hapens in Nebuko
1.Parody
2. Coincidence
3. Patterning
4. Illusion
5. Work within the work
6. Staging of the novel
7. Authorial voice

Other authors who had an obsession for young girls:
Poe
Dickens and Little Red Riding Hood
Louis Carroll

"nymph" entomology
Nebukov's blues- color of butterfly
Nymphette- and immature but sexually attractive girl or at least attractive to a certain type of man.

Dolores means sorrow, Lolita is a form of the name Dolores.

Some of the key words for reading this text are change and transformation, much like the change a butterfly undergoes in metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis via the imagination

Art by Nebukov's definition
No moral to the story
The work of fiction is only worth its worth for aesthetic bliss
Art- curiousity, tenderness, kindness, ectasy