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