No Thanks, Mr. Nabokov // vision of paradise? (NP)

[Michael Lee Bailey]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> To each his own, I guess. I loved Lolita. It's a perfect blend of
> comedy, tragedy, simmering sex and style. But I think the praise N
> received for Lolita ruined his later novels. It was all downhill
> afterwards.
> 
> David Morris
> 

I'm not going to weigh in on its merits, but I did
like the way he got the splinter out of her eye - that 
was the biggest turnon

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"Day after celestial day....she reads.  Puttermesser reads and reads.
Her eyes in Paradise are unfatigued.  And if she still does not know
what it is she wants to solve, she has only to read on....She reads
anthropology, zoology, physcial chemistry, philosophy....
Puttermesser will read Non-Fiction into
eternity; and there is still time for Fiction!"  

(Cynthia Ozick, "Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry,
Her Afterlife")