NPPF&VLVL2 Preliminaries: The Epigraphs

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>>>All in all, I think Nabokov's choice of this particular quote is meant to
poke fun at Boswell *and* Johnson, their relationship, their pretensions,
the text generated therefrom and so forth, *as well as* at Kinbote *and*
Shade and theirs.<<<

Historian Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859) called Boswell's worship of Dr.
Johnson "Lues Boswelliana, or disease of admiration."