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Alexey Sklyarenko announced "Nabokov's Anthropomorphic Zoo: The Leporine Family of Doctors in Ada" is now available in Zembla (in Word format): http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/krolik.doc (July 23, 2010)
JM: While I was browsing through "Lolita," I came across a sentence (with no lettuce) in which a different doctor, a psychiatrist, is related to hares. The image mentions not a bovine look or a sheepish submissal, but a dumb fascination. Are there more references of that kind anywhere else in Nabokov's novels? Doctors and rabbits?
"The able psychiatrist who studies my case - and whom by now Dr. Humbert has plunged, I trust, into a state of leporine fascination - is no doubt anxious to have me take Lolita to the seaside and have me find there, at last, the "gratification" of a lifetime urge, and release from the "subconscious" obsession of an incomplete childhood romance with the initial little Miss Lee." (AL,pg 166)
A.Appel's notes (p.396) read: "leporine fascination: like a hare. The "able psychiatrist" is being hypnotized as a rabbit is by a serpent (H.H.).
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JM: While I was browsing through "Lolita," I came across a sentence (with no lettuce) in which a different doctor, a psychiatrist, is related to hares. The image mentions not a bovine look or a sheepish submissal, but a dumb fascination. Are there more references of that kind anywhere else in Nabokov's novels? Doctors and rabbits?
"The able psychiatrist who studies my case - and whom by now Dr. Humbert has plunged, I trust, into a state of leporine fascination - is no doubt anxious to have me take Lolita to the seaside and have me find there, at last, the "gratification" of a lifetime urge, and release from the "subconscious" obsession of an incomplete childhood romance with the initial little Miss Lee." (AL,pg 166)
A.Appel's notes (p.396) read: "leporine fascination: like a hare. The "able psychiatrist" is being hypnotized as a rabbit is by a serpent (H.H.).
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