M & D Read: Relevant to Gaze?

[Mark Kohut]

Dear Those Who See M & D as essentially (is that right word?) an
historical novel...

Do you think P was consciously alluding to Lolita in Humbert's
lap---you can find it online---or is that just a common happening
in certain circumstances....?


Bit of my real life bits....I live near a university...car full of young, girls
hanging out of windows, stop and offer a guy friend a ride....guy, quick
as one of the Vroom girls sees virtually no room.....

Snaps to woman in front seat who asked: 'If you'll sit on my
lap--obviously implying
he ain't sitting on anyone's lap----, yes"...


On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> pp. 63-64 Els squirms on Mason's lap:
>
> "As Lolita sits squirming on his berobed lap in the Haze living room,
> Humbert triumphantly reflects: I entered a plane of being where
> nothing mattered, save the infusion of joy brewed within my body. What
> had begun as a delicious distension of ..."
>
>
> 64--'in the Release".....two meanings here, at least.....
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