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Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 03:17:25 EDT
From: Cherub9rock@aol.com
Reply-To: Cherub9rock@aol.com
Subject: Re: NABOKV-L Digest - 19 May 2005 to 20 May 2005 (#2005-124)
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Dear List,
I'm a postgrad student in Australia and I'm chasing up a full-text copy of
John Gordon's review of Lolita in the British Sunday Express, Jan 1956. My
university library doesn't have it even in microfilm/fiche, and neither does the
State Library system- does anyone have any leads? I've found lots of snippets of
it in texts and articles, but I'm keen to read a copy of the whole thing.
Sorry to bother with such a trivial question!
On another note, in one of those infinitely strange echoes that seem to crop
up constantly when reading Nabokov, I was just simultaneously reading Despair
and Boyd's book on Pale Fire when a bizarre coincidence happened- I'd just
been reading the section on Iris Acht in Boyd's text, where he talks about the
fact that "'Hazel' is rare as a colour word in being so preponderantly applied
to a single object, the human eye...or to be more anatomically precise, the
coloured part of the eye, the iris"(160) when I stumbled across this in Despair:
"I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe for
the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes"(31)
Cheers,
Sarah Holland-Batt
University of Queensland
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