Peder
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ROTFALOL! This is the only warp I know.StillILearn said:And this isn't?
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ROTFALOL! This is the only warp I know.StillILearn said:And this isn't?
And I can't recall any substantial mentions of her caring that much about her looks.Is she still brushing her teeth (the only sanitary act Lo performs with real zest)?
pontalba said:SIL, Peder--
Yes, I have the purple Casebook, with the Limpid Lo on the cover. But you know the odd part is that I don't think that Lo thought about her looks that much, if you remember Humbert said that: p.49
And I can't recall any substantial mentions of her caring that much about her looks.
Time Warp? LOL As in Time Space Continum.....or alternate universe...
pontalba said:SIL, Time Warp? LOL As in Time Space Continum.....or alternate universe...
Duh!StillILearn said:Same quote that came to my mind, pontalba. I'd be curious to know how and why Pifer chose that picture for her cover. And why HH is stoking the fire with such zeal.
Hm. Double meanings everywhere.
You don't mean......? /puts back of hand over mouth, gasps/pontalba said:Duh!
I can't imagine..........she said innocently
pontalba said:
And I can't recall any substantial mentions of her caring that much about her looks.
When I was a kid, I found my mothers old scrap books of actors and actresses. I particularly remember a picture of Robert Taylor as a very young man. He'd have made a gorgeous woman! Yet when he matured, he was extremely masculine. And might I add extremely attractive to me! Go figure!by SIL Edit: Why are men always more attractive when they become older? He was handsome as a youngster, but he looks somewhat supercilious;as he matured, he became well, more interesting.
Apparently 'vacuous' is only becoming when it comes to women.
Peder said:Pontalba,
I remember a stray comment that she was very happy with "anything she could wear."
But apart from that she is always being put down as being dirty, and only taking that "badly needed shower" because the hotel "soap was complimentary."
In fact, I think she may be the most under-described female character of any age in all of literature. Not the least, the most unattractively described for a femme who was a man-killer of sorts. Ya' think?
Peder
You women! Now it's my turn, finally, to say you just don't ubderstand how we think. I remember the shower reference.pontalba said:I do remember the remarks you posted, but for some reason the brushing of teeth made an impression on me. Maybe because they made a point of it in the movie.....Irons I think, of Lo energetically brushing her teeth.
Well, drat, Pontalba,pontalba said:Um, excuse me, but I think we know all too well how the male mind works.
Throw in a lathery babe, and thats all they need to make 'em happy. VN was going for the cererbal........no shower scenes allowed!
ROTFALOLTIC!Peder said:Well, drat, Pontalba,
I thought I was missing something. But now I know.
Oh well
Have to get along with brushing teeth, but I tell ya' it's not the same.
Peder
Now thats enough to give one the shivers!......I had already been bundled off to Deauville with a cousin of Mother's, since it was feared that the rumble of Hitler's bombs might reach Paris. (It did, but only after our departure for America, and I think one of the few bombs actually dropped on the city did hit our building as we were crossing on the Champlain.The vessel, too, was destined to be destroyed after having safely delivered us with no more than the spout of an occasional whale to alarm a couple of trigger-happy gunners; on its next voyage, for which we had originally held passage, it was sunk with all aboard by a German submarine.)
pontalba said:On p. 84-85 of The Enchanter actually in the back On a Book Entitled the Enchanter written by Dmitri Nabokov:
Now thats enough to give one the shivers!
Peder said-- the major part of the story is about Arthur snaking his way toward the daughter through an environmental forest of well-meaning and unsuspecting relatives and friends.
Pontalba,pontalba said:Its as though VN wrote TE, then elaborated on it, turned it inside out and reversed polarity for Lolita. So much is superficially the same, but Lolita is deeper and stronger and certainly more compelling IMO than TE. Although I must say the ending (POW!) is certainly spine chillingly dynamite.
I love the analysis and depth of Lolita I want to know why people do what they do, and it is explained so beautifully in Lolita. Breaca caught that one portion of a sentence about a sister that I completely missed, and it explained so much of Arthur's motivations and history. And if I missed it I know someone else must have missed it too.
This is the defining review of The Enchanter in my opinion. It covers the major action of the book.