Thursday, September 24

"Doomed Dears and Dead Brides"

BLOGGING HW:

• Don't forget to do discovery for blog: randomly chosen passage unpacked
• Focus for midterm paper by next week

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Jeremy Irons reads the dirty sex scene "I recognized the tiny brown mole on her side..."

Riddled with DEATH:

• Charlotte gets run over by Aubrey McFate
• Lolita dies in childbirth
• Clare dies by HH
• HH dies in prison

This has to be, or we wouldn't be reading it...

Clare clues:

• Camp 'Q'
• 'broad-shouldered man'
• Aztec red car
• and much, much more! (pg 349 has the extensive list

Nabokov is teaching us how to read by putting in these many clues for us to find

A brief picture of Clare:

• likes fast cars, pets and porn
• dumb
• not well read
• crass
• "sinister"

A brief picture of HH:

• smart
• well read
• writes poetry
• evil?
• handsome

The Top 10 books (and then some...) chosen by authors:

1. Anna Karenina
2. Madame Bovary
3. War and Peace
4. Lolita
5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6. Hamlet
7. The Great Gatsby
8. Remembrance of Things Past
9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov
10. Middlemarch
11. Don Quixote
12. Moby Dick
13. Great Expectations
14. Ulysses

*please note that there are 4 by Russians!

WATERPROOF: Actaeon and Diana

Detectives that are hyper conscious:

• Monk
• Pysch
• The Mentalist

Convo with Clare and HH doesn't even know it! pg 126

"Suddenly I was aware that in the darkness next to me there was somebody sitting in a chair of the pillared porch. I could not really see him but what gave him away was the rasp of a screwing off, then a discreet gurgle, then the final note of a placid screwing on. I was about to move away when his voice addressed me: 'Where the devil did you get her?' 'I beg your pardon?' 'I said: the weather is getting better.' 'Seems so.' 'Who's the lassie?' 'My daughter.' 'You lie- she's not.' 'I beg your pardon?' 'I said: July was hot. Where's her mother?' 'Dead.' 'I see. Sorry. By the way, why don't you two lunch with me tomorrow. That dreadful crowd will be gone by then.' 'We'll be gone too. Good night.' 'Sorry. I'm pretty drunk. Good night. That child of yours needs a lot of sleep. Sleep is a rose, as the Persians say. Smoke?' 'Not now.' He struck a light, but because he was drunk, or because the wind was, the flame illuminated not him but another person, a very old man, one of those permanent guests of old hotels- and his white rocker. Nobody said anything and the darkness returned to its initial place. Then I heard the old-timer cough and deliver himself of some sepulchral mucus."

Clare is the nephew of Ivor Quilty, the Ramsdale dentist

Lolita is in secret conversation with Clare a large amount of their trip, since The Enchanted Hunter because she is in love with him. She says "[Clare] broke my heart. [HH] merely broke my life" pg 279

Ash Wednesday by TS Eliot is the poem that HH's poem is based on

Umber moth

Humbert on Humbert:

pg 308 "And I have toyed with many pseudonyms for myself before I hit on a particularly apt one. There are in my notes 'Otto Otto' and 'Mesmer Mesmer' and 'Lambert Lambert,' but for some reason I think my choice expresses the nastiness best"

pg 319 "The double rumble is, I think, very nasty, very suggestive. It is a hateful name for a hateful person."

solipsism