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Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

In Ada, on p.19, it says "and I had gone to my aunt's ranch near Lolita, Texas", and the notes say
"p.19. Lolita, Texas: this town exists, or rather, existed, for it has been renamed, I believe, after the appearance of the notorious novel"
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And after some googling, I found that this Lolita, in Texas, still exists... shame, it would be great to learn that not only have no children been named Lolita since Lolita was published, but a town's name was changed too!
 
steffee said:
In Ada, on p.19, it says "and I had gone to my aunt's ranch near Lolita, Texas", and the notes say

And after some googling, I found that this Lolita, in Texas, still exists... shame, it would be great to learn that not only have no children been named Lolita since Lolita was published, but a town's name was changed too!
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Steffee,
Nice find!
Now, there are some people who live every day in a moral dilemma! :D
peder
 
Vera

Just finished reading Vera. The last of her zillions of acknowledgements reads like this:

My most considerable debt is to Dmitri Nabokov, who -- above and beyond opening the archives -- afforded me the biographer's greatest luxury:

He allowed me to torture him with questions without ever reversing the equation. From the beginning he understood perfectly why I needed not only his parent's correspondence but that 1943 grocery list, the one on which his father suggested his mother acquire him "a monster pineapple."
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So, I guess they were friendly at one point anyway.
 
StillILearn said:
If we don't all end up in the Poor House, we will almost certainly all end up in jail! :D
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Well, I've told you I'll have Zazu or Tuffy carry books back and forth between cells, um, I mean rooms..........:p
 
StillILearn said:
Just finished reading Vera. The last of her zillions of acknowledgements reads like this:



So, I guess they were friendly at one point anyway.
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Ooohhhh....I'm still only not quite half way thru.

Diversions..........:D
 
I've been concentrating pretty singel-mindedly on Vera. When you get through with it, I have something that I want to discuss with you (and everybody who has read it).

But I want to let you finish first. ;)
 
StillILearn said:
I've been concentrating pretty singel-mindedly on Vera. When you get through with it, I have something that I want to discuss with you (and everybody who has read it).

But I want to let you finish first. ;)
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Ohhh, I can't wait! I've not had any chance to read today at all, too much going on around here, but hope to remedy that tonight.
 
Just tossin' this in ...

I found this while grazing upon the other site, and thought it was amusing. I may be quoting somebody who is quoting William Safire here, although I very well could be completely incorrect about that:

(The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, March 20, 1994; William Safire on Language):

... Phrasedicks have long attributed POLITICALLY CORRECT... to Chairman Mao's little red book of the 1960's. Now comes Prof. Irving Lewis Allen of the U of Connecticut with an earlier citation. Writing in a forthcoming issue of American Speech... he finds the full phrase in Vladimir Nabokov's 1947 novel, BEND SINISTER, a fantasy about a clownish dictator: 'It is better for a man to have belonged to a POLITICALLY INCORRECT organization... than not to have belonged to any organization at all.' The author of LOLITA has thereby earned a place in the hearts of linguistic heavy hitters, etc."
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I guess I could go ahead and check this out at some time or another. :rolleyes:
 
Peder = PS it is "descried" in my edition, not "described." pontalba = Me too.....:D
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"Described", "descried" -- those two were not going to RIP until that particular typo had been corrected.

Good thing they can't see what I have done here to some of their letters! :D
 
StillILearn said:
"Described", "descried" -- those two were not going to RIP until that particular typo had been corrected.:D
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LOL Still,
You got that right!
Can't imagine the publishers would have wanted a visit from Vera explaining to them how distressed her husband was. :rolleyes:
peder
 
Ode to Ada, oh!

Oh, to a day, Ada to Oh!, yes, demonstrating adumbrating every conceivable incoceivable punning, funning while the snow outdoors, hazy, no, I'm crazy, the sun me floors, once down now renowned upward thusward circles whirlingly hourly our globular orb,... orb?.....orb! in its orbid bidding us bonzhour monzhur in Charlotte's Roocey bahn hommy echoing re-sounding wherein these thoughts hoarded, worded are typed racing across a seaboard keyboard facing in the southeast corner south, north of The city on the Eastern edge of a northerly continent Amerlada westerly in the semisphere nesterly in the atmosfair /Vladochka, do check that! in the margin scribble/ as words dribble in desibbles too fast for stanch by Vera's blanch, but now shorts, shirts on, don we done, our garments outerward coffee heading dreading no more sugard onuts, just plain donuts! Ada! Waidda minit for me!

Which, for all the mirth,
Explains my birth
Sufficiently,
Peder
:)
 
Peder said:
Oh, to a day, Ada to Oh!, yes, demonstrating adumbrating every conceivable incoceivable punning, funning while the snow outdoors, hazy, no, I'm crazy, the sun me floors, once down now renowned upward thusward circles whirlingly hourly our globular orb,... orb?.....orb! in its orbid bidding us bonzhour monzhur in Charlotte's Roocey bahn hommy echoing re-sounding wherein these thoughts hoarded, worded are typed racing across a seaboard keyboard facing in the southeast corner south, north of The city on the Eastern edge of a northerly continent Amerlada westerly in the semisphere nesterly in the atmosfair /Vladochka, do check that! in the margin scribble/ as words dribble in desibbles too fast for stanch by Vera's blanch, but now shorts, shirts on, don we done, our garments outerward coffee heading dreading no more sugard onuts, just plain donuts! Ada! Waidda minit for me!

Which, for all the mirth,
Explains my birth
Sufficiently,
Peder
:)
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LOL, you are crazy! I love it!! :D :D
 
StillILearn said:
I guess you hadda been there! :eek: :D :eek: :D :eek: :D
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Still,
Ya see? Steffee loves it! Many thanks Steffee! :) :) :)
She knows it's a fair summary of pages 1-30. :rolleyes:
Now I'm rereading to get that birth part straight. :cool:
But it was fun, f-u-n!
:) :) :)
Peder
 
steffee said:
LOL, you are crazy! I love it!! :D :D
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Steffee,
Crazy is the only way to live .............. here. :rolleyes:
Do you think there is any way to rearrange the letters in Ada, to spell J-o-y-c-e?
:confused:
Peder

PS Thanks for compliment for having fun. :) :) :)
 
I'm not nuts, its everybody else in the world thats crazy.......:p

:D

And btw, I think y'all are having way tooo mucy fun with Ada! :D

I can't wait!
 
pontalba said:
I'm not nuts, its everybody else in the world thats crazy.......:p

:D

And btw, I think y'all are having way tooo mucy fun with Ada! :D

I can't wait!
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Pontalba,
Ada is different! Which is what that post was meant to suggest.
But, then again, "different" sounds like what we seem to say about each of the stories/versions we look at. If so, then Ada is very different!
Peder
 
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