Nabokov - Day Eight

Listening to Jeremy Irons speak as Humbert Humbert once again....

The first time he saw Lolita...

Talk about the film versions, Clare Quilty and hoe he is a doppelganger to HH.

We want to know the top ten from the top ten books book:

Middlemarch – George Elliot - Number Ten
The stories of Anton Chekhov
A La Resarch
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Adventures of Huckle Berry
Lolita
War and Peace
Madame B. - Number Two
Anna Karenina – Number one


Number 11 and 12..... Don Quixote and Moby Dick.... 13 – Great Expecations.... 14 – Ulysses.... 15 – Odyssey and so on.....

Section 6 (210-211) – The part of the book that James found a connection to “Speak, Memory” in.

Joseph Campbell says about Actaeon and Dianna – Achteon was looking at her with only the normal look in his eyes... Is Lolita also about a person who is unable to look upon the goddess, and still live?

The secret to how Clare Quilty wrote the play at the University!

He was the person at the hotel that saw them walk in.... Now we listen to Jeremy Irons read it.

Part of this is a parody of detective novels....

Nabokov would get a kick out of all the detectives keeping an eye on all the intensely small details just like he wants them too....

Talking about Jamie Lynn's discovery, Umber moth... ugly, brown, ordinary. We turn to 319 to discuss Humbert Humbert name.

Solipsism – The philosophy that there is no world except for the one that you imagine, the one within your mind and when you are gone, so is it.