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Subject: L is for Lolita and Lubrication...
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 02 10:57:04 -0800
From: justice <justice@ucla.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
EDITOR's NOTE. NABOKV-L thanks Alexander Justice for this gem.
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Whilst spelling the ABC's of Britney Spears, the Guardian's Peter Conrad
takes a detour through Zembla
[http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,651264,00.html]
"L is for Lolita and Lubrication, which go together. Britney
defines herself as a nymphet in Crossroads: 'I'm not a girl
but I'm not yet a woman,' she caterwauls. Though she has
sternly said: 'I don't want to be part of someone's Lolita
thing', one of her handlers must have studied Nabokov's
novel. Humbert, absconding with his underage
stepdaughter, sees double entendres everywhere, even at
petrol stations: 'A garage said in its sleep - genuflexion
lubricity; and corrected itself to Gulflex Lubrication.' In
Crossroads, Britney's dad owns such an establishment, and
as she skips town with the stubbled hunk who later
deflowers her, she casts a backward glance at the sign
which offers - I swear it - lube jobs. The snake, as Nabokov
knew, was wriggling through the garden long before the
fall."
Alexander Justice * alex@supermodern.net *
http://members.uia.net/~jahvah
Don't you wonder sometimes / 'Bout sound and vision? -- David Bowie
Subject: L is for Lolita and Lubrication...
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 02 10:57:04 -0800
From: justice <justice@ucla.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
EDITOR's NOTE. NABOKV-L thanks Alexander Justice for this gem.
-----------------
Whilst spelling the ABC's of Britney Spears, the Guardian's Peter Conrad
takes a detour through Zembla
[http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,651264,00.html]
"L is for Lolita and Lubrication, which go together. Britney
defines herself as a nymphet in Crossroads: 'I'm not a girl
but I'm not yet a woman,' she caterwauls. Though she has
sternly said: 'I don't want to be part of someone's Lolita
thing', one of her handlers must have studied Nabokov's
novel. Humbert, absconding with his underage
stepdaughter, sees double entendres everywhere, even at
petrol stations: 'A garage said in its sleep - genuflexion
lubricity; and corrected itself to Gulflex Lubrication.' In
Crossroads, Britney's dad owns such an establishment, and
as she skips town with the stubbled hunk who later
deflowers her, she casts a backward glance at the sign
which offers - I swear it - lube jobs. The snake, as Nabokov
knew, was wriggling through the garden long before the
fall."
Alexander Justice * alex@supermodern.net *
http://members.uia.net/~jahvah
Don't you wonder sometimes / 'Bout sound and vision? -- David Bowie