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Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife
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| 9/12/2018
| Sam Tanenhaus
Posted on 09/12/2018 6:51:55 PM PDT by Borges
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To: cymbeline
Nothing beneath the surface, reliance on cliches and hackenyed images. Lolita is about a bunch of things at once. People quote from it.
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09/13/2018 8:56:16 AM PDT
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Borges
To: redhead
Lolita is endlessly re-readable. Even to read out loud.
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posted on
09/13/2018 2:18:58 PM PDT
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Borges
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
09/13/2018 7:50:30 PM PDT
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Taffini
( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
To: rlmorel
I like her work. Looks a lot better than some of the art I’ve seen in museums.
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09/13/2018 7:59:43 PM PDT
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Taffini
( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
To: Taffini
She paints wonderfully now, watercolors only, and learned it all herself from library books and YouTube!
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09/14/2018 4:58:42 AM PDT
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rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: Taffini
To: cymbeline
Nabokov was a writer’s writer. A polymath, he worked with words like a prestidigitator.
The supposed theme of Lolita is Old Europe and Young America mutually seducing each other.
His prose is brilliant but I found Pale Fire more intriguing.
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10/09/2018 8:19:23 PM PDT
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TradicalRC
(Fides quaerens intellectum.)
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