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.