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From: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
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Subject: RE: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
Jansy,
I just now realized that our discussion, at least my share, has wheeled around
back into the Romantic poets. From a Keats question to a Wordsworth answer. And
now I wonder if VN could actually have intended a closer look at Keats/Bailey
than I thought at first. Is there a Proustian mnemosynian, or maybe
paramnesian, intonation in the romantic poet's concern with memory? My Keats
letters are at home.
Andrew Brown
> ----------
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> Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:06 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
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>
> ----- Forwarded message from jansy@aetern.us -----
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:09:53 -0300
> From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
> Reply-To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
> Subject: Re: Re: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
>
> RE: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?Andrew,
>
> You described what I meant and was unable to put into so many words (
actually,
> not that many!):" memories that come unbidden" instead of "specific memories
> that are sought but not obtained". But your observation that these memories
are
> "often unwelcome" adds a Freudian dimension that I didn´t find in Proust´s
> elaborations.
> I think that what HH sought was not a specific memory - but that he did seek
a
> specific state of mind that could lead him into the experience of an
"aesthetic
> bliss".
> You wrote, in the end of your note: "until the fateful day he winds up in
> Ramsdale. And there he finds the real thing, of which Annabel was merely
> simulacrum".
> I cannot agree with you that "Lolita was the real thing" because I believe,
> like Freud, that there is no such "real thing" except the "real loss" of a
> "some-thing" that always haunts every one of us and which Nabokov could render
> in such a taunting heartbreaking way in almost all his novels.
>
> Jerrie Friedman wrote beautifully about his reading of "Pale Fire" and shared
> his vision with us where a "red admiral" became "the" thing. But Friedman
also
> implied a level of apprehension like Taoist Chuang Tzu´s story about having
> dreamt that he was a butterfly and upon awakening finding himself not as
> certain as he´d been about who he was: a Chuang Tzu person ? A butterfly
> dreaming Chuang Tzy? ( i.e: are dreams more real than our conscious
vigil-state
> sense of "I am"? )
>
> Thinking about movies and Ada, there would never be " a one only real
> translation/transposition" of VN´s novel. That´s not what movies are about (
> "transpositions" ), I think.
> Concerning "Lolita", for example, film-critic Richard Corliss wrote about
> Kubrick´s achievement saying that Nabokov had written a extravagantly
cinematic
> screen-play that could only exist on the printed page and Adrian Lyne's
> screen-writer, Stephen Schiff, argued that Kubrick's movie tended more to a
> Quilty than to a Lolita.
> Schiff viewed "Lolita" not as a mere book, but as a jig-saw puzzle, and, in
> transposing it into film he intended "to write a movie that an audience could
> take in entirely the first time; I hope that we have achieved something like
> the effect Nabokov intends after several readings, though our means are
> entirely different (...) attempting to translate into a kind of exciting sign
> language - the language of the film - what one of the century's greatest
> masters of prose rendered so incomparably on the page". Interviewed by
> Suellen Stringer-Hye(www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/schiffl.htm)
>
> What is "really" Ada? Where is the "real Lolita"?
> Jansy
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from as-brown@comcast.net -----
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:57:34 -0500
> From: Andrew Brown <as-brown@comcast.net>>
> Reply-To: Andrew Brown <as-brown@comcast.net>
> Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?Jansey,
>
> It seems to me more that Proust's involuntary memory meant memories that come
> unbidden, often unwelcome, more so than specific memories that are sought but
> not obtained. Proust's characters are more often engulfed in memories,
> overpowered by them. The involuntary action is memory's abundance. But from
the
> moment Humbert reports Annabel's death in Corfu, he can fairly easily, and
> coldbloodedly, proceed without much of a backward glance for her. The passage
> in which HH writes his ironic essay is in the period when he also writes his
> fleshless (and stillborn) pastiche, and hangs out at the Deux Magot, and
> basically lives as a banal left bank cliche. He admits to being an artiste
> manque which also supports my idea about the idleness of his essay. The
> nympholeptic contact has him in thrall, and he is less pining for the past
than
> he is muddling toward a future, through a string of desultory adventures,
until
> the fateful day he winds up in Ramsdale. And there he finds the real thing, of
> which Annabel was merely simulacrum.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from jansy@aetern.us -----
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:15:27 -0300
> From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
> Reply-To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
> Subject: Re: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
>
> I haven´t read any but one of Keats´ letters ( with the much quoted
> description
> of "negative capability" - which all Nabokovians must cultivate anyway ) but
> I´ve always been intrigued by Nabokov´s project of having everything under
> control in his conscious mind yielding complete and free access to his
> remembrances. No slip without glitter and glide.
>
> And yet one of the intriguing aspects of Proust´s theory about memory and
his
> examples comes from the fact that Proust refers to an "involuntary memory".
> There is a wonderful essay on Proust written by Samuel Beckett where he was
> able
> to count only six or seven epiphanies in Proust´s entire oeuvre.
>
> I was wondering if, instead of joining the chuckling scholars, HH was hiding
a
> disappointment at his not being able to conjure up Annabel Lee as often as
he
> desired. If his memory, like the Proustian, remained "involuntary" ...
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com -----
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:26:38 -0500
> From: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
> Mike,
>
> Having read Keats's letters and found nothing in those addressed to Bailey
> to
> suggest a Proustian theme, I took Humbert's assertion to mean that his
> article
> had intentionally been in jest. HH notes without disappointment that the
> article provoked chuckles from the few scholars who read it. I think VN
was
> prone to enjoying this sort of humor. Possibly something of the sort was
> among
> the minute idea seeds out of which grew the masterpiece Pale Fire.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> > Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:48 PM
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
> >
> > Dear List,
> >
> > A Lolita question: Humbert notes (p. 16 in the Vintage edition) that he
> > wrote an article about "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to
> > Benjamin Bailey." I assume that the letter has something to do with
> memory,
> > but I'm having a hard time finding any passages in Keats's letters to
> Bailey
> > that directly deal with memory. Has anyone figured out the specific
Keats
> > passage that H.H. might be referring to?>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike Donohue
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
> >
>
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>
>
> Mike,
>
> Having read Keats's letters and found nothing in those addressed to Bailey
> to
> suggest a Proustian theme, I took Humbert's assertion to mean that his
article
> had intentionally been in jest. HH notes without disappointment that the
> article provoked chuckles from the few scholars who read it. I think VN was
> prone to enjoying this sort of humor. Possibly something of the sort was
among
> the minute idea seeds out of which grew the masterpiece Pale Fire.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:48 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
> Dear List,
>
> A Lolita question: Humbert notes (p. 16 in the Vintage edition) that he
> wrote an article about "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to
> Benjamin Bailey." I assume that the letter has something to do with
> memory,
> but I'm having a hard time finding any passages in Keats's letters to
> Bailey
> that directly deal with memory. Has anyone figured out the specific
Keats
> passage that H.H. might be referring to?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Donohue
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
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>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Andrew,
>
> I haven´t read any but one of Keats´ letters ( with the much quoted
> description of "negative capability" - which all Nabokovians must cultivate
> anyway ) but I´ve always been intrigued by Nabokov´s project of having
> everything under control in his conscious mind yielding complete and free
> access to his remembrances. No slip without glitter and glide.
>
> And yet one of the intriguing aspects of Proust´s theory about memory and
his
> examples comes from the fact that Proust refers to an "involuntary memory".
> There is a wonderful essay on Proust written by Samuel Beckett where he was
> able to count only six or seven epiphanies in Proust´s entire oeuvre.
>
> I was wondering if, instead of joining the chuckling scholars, HH was hiding
a
> disappointment at his not being able to conjure up Annabel Lee as often as he
> desired. If his memory, like the Proustian, remained "involuntary" ...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donald B. Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:39 PM
> Subject: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com ----->
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:26:38 -0500
> From: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
> Mike,
>
> Having read Keats's letters and found nothing in those addressed to Bailey
> to
> suggest a Proustian theme, I took Humbert's assertion to mean that his
> article
> had intentionally been in jest. HH notes without disappointment that the
> article provoked chuckles from the few scholars who read it. I think VN
was
> prone to enjoying this sort of humor. Possibly something of the sort was
> among
> the minute idea seeds out of which grew the masterpiece Pale Fire.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> > Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:48 PM
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
> >
> > Dear List,
> >
> > A Lolita question: Humbert notes (p. 16 in the Vintage edition) that he
> > wrote an article about "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to
> > Benjamin Bailey." I assume that the letter has something to do with
> memory,
> > but I'm having a hard time finding any passages in Keats's letters to
> Bailey
> > that directly deal with memory. Has anyone figured out the specific
Keats
> > passage that H.H. might be referring to?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike Donohue
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
> >
>
>
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> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Mike,
>
> Having read Keats's letters and found nothing in those addressed to Bailey
> to suggest a Proustian theme, I took Humbert's assertion to mean that his
> article had intentionally been in jest. HH notes without disappointment that
> the article provoked chuckles from the few scholars who read it. I think VN
was
> prone to enjoying this sort of humor. Possibly something of the sort was among
> the minute idea seeds out of which grew the masterpiece Pale Fire.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:48 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
> Dear List,
>
> A Lolita question: Humbert notes (p. 16 in the Vintage edition) that he
> wrote an article about "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to
> Benjamin Bailey." I assume that the letter has something to do with
> memory,
> but I'm having a hard time finding any passages in Keats's letters to
> Bailey
> that directly deal with memory. Has anyone figured out the specific
Keats
> passage that H.H. might be referring to?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Donohue
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
> This message and any attachments contain information, which may be
> confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please
> refrain from any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this information.
> Please be aware that such actions are prohibited. If you have received this
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to>
> helpdesk@bbdo.com. We appreciate your cooperation.
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Jansey,
>
> It seems to me more that Proust's involuntary memory meant memories that
come
> unbidden, often unwelcome, more so than specific memories that are sought but
> not obtained. Proust's characters are more often engulfed in memories,
> overpowered by them. The involuntary action is memory's abundance. But from
the
> moment Humbert reports Annabel's death in Corfu, he can fairly easily, and
> coldbloodedly, proceed without much of a backward glance for her. The passage
> in which HH writes his ironic essay is in the period when he also writes his
> fleshless (and stillborn) pastiche, and hangs out at the Deux Magot, and
> basically lives as a banal left bank cliche. He admits to being an artiste
> manque which also supports my idea about the idleness of his essay. The
> nympholeptic contact has him in thrall, and he is less pining for the past
than
> he is muddling toward a future, through a string of desultory adventures,
until
> the fateful day he winds up in Ramsdale. And there he finds the real thing, of
> which Annabel was merely simulacrum.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donald B. Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:50 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Re: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from jansy@aetern.us -----
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:15:27 -0300
> From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
> Reply-To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
> Subject: Re: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
> RE: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?Andrew,
>
> I haven´t read any but one of Keats´ letters ( with the much quoted
> description
> of "negative capability" - which all Nabokovians must cultivate anyway )
but
> I´ve always been intrigued by Nabokov´s project of having everything under
> control in his conscious mind yielding complete and free access to his
> remembrances. No slip without glitter and glide.
>
> And yet one of the intriguing aspects of Proust´s theory about memory and
> his
> examples comes from the fact that Proust refers to an "involuntary
memory".
> There is a wonderful essay on Proust written by Samuel Beckett where he
was
> able
> to count only six or seven epiphanies in Proust´s entire oeuvre.
>
> I was wondering if, instead of joining the chuckling scholars, HH was
hiding
> a
> disappointment at his not being able to conjure up Annabel Lee as often as
> he
> desired. If his memory, like the Proustian, remained "involuntary" ...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donald B. Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:39 PM
> Subject: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com -----
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:26:38 -0500
> From: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
> Mike,
>
> Having read Keats's letters and found nothing in those addressed to
Bailey
> to
> suggest a Proustian theme, I took Humbert's assertion to mean that his
> article
> had intentionally been in jest. HH notes without disappointment that the
> article provoked chuckles from the few scholars who read it. I think VN
> was
> prone to enjoying this sort of humor. Possibly something of the sort was
> among
> the minute idea seeds out of which grew the masterpiece Pale Fire.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson>
> > Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:48 PM
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
> >
> > Dear List,
> >
> > A Lolita question: Humbert notes (p. 16 in the Vintage edition) that
he
> > wrote an article about "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to
> > Benjamin Bailey." I assume that the letter has something to do with
> memory,
> > but I'm having a hard time finding any passages in Keats's letters to
> Bailey
> > that directly deal with memory. Has anyone figured out the specific
> Keats
> > passage that H.H. might be referring to?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike Donohue
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
> >
>
>
> This message and any attachments contain information, which may be
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> disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this information. Please be
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> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Mike,
>
> Having read Keats's letters and found nothing in those addressed to
Bailey
> to
> suggest a Proustian theme, I took Humbert's assertion to mean that his
> article
> had intentionally been in jest. HH notes without disappointment that the
> article provoked chuckles from the few scholars who read it. I think VN
was
> prone to enjoying this sort of humor. Possibly something of the sort was
> among
> the minute idea seeds out of which grew the masterpiece Pale Fire.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:48 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
> Dear List,
>
> A Lolita question: Humbert notes (p. 16 in the Vintage edition) that
he
> wrote an article about "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to
> Benjamin Bailey." I assume that the letter has something to do with
> memory,
> but I'm having a hard time finding any passages in Keats's letters to
> Bailey
> that directly deal with memory. Has anyone figured out the specific
> Keats
> passage that H.H. might be referring to?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Donohue
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
> This message and any attachments contain information, which may be
> confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please
> refrain from any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this
> information.
> Please be aware that such actions are prohibited. If you have received
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> transmission in error, kindly notify us by calling 1-800-262-4723 or
> to
> helpdesk@bbdo.com. We appreciate your cooperation.
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Andrew,
>
> I haven´t read any but one of Keats´ letters ( with the much quoted
> description of "negative capability" - which all Nabokovians must cultivate
> anyway ) but I´ve always been intrigued by Nabokov´s project of having
> everything under control in his conscious mind yielding complete and free
> access to his remembrances. No slip without glitter and glide.>
>
> And yet one of the intriguing aspects of Proust´s theory about memory and
> his examples comes from the fact that Proust refers to an "involuntary
> memory".
> There is a wonderful essay on Proust written by Samuel Beckett where he
was
> able to count only six or seven epiphanies in Proust´s entire oeuvre.
>
> I was wondering if, instead of joining the chuckling scholars, HH was
hiding
> a disappointment at his not being able to conjure up Annabel Lee as often as
he
> desired. If his memory, like the Proustian, remained "involuntary" ...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donald B. Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:39 PM
> Subject: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com -----
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:26:38 -0500
> From: "Brown, Andrew" <Andrew.Brown@bbdodetroit.com>
> Mike,
>
> Having read Keats's letters and found nothing in those addressed to
Bailey
> to
> suggest a Proustian theme, I took Humbert's assertion to mean that his
> article
> had intentionally been in jest. HH notes without disappointment that the
> article provoked chuckles from the few scholars who read it. I think VN
> was
> prone to enjoying this sort of humor. Possibly something of the sort was
> among
> the minute idea seeds out of which grew the masterpiece Pale Fire.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> > Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:48 PM
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?
> >
> > Dear List,
> >
> > A Lolita question: Humbert notes (p. 16 in the Vintage edition) that
he
> > wrote an article about "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to
> > Benjamin Bailey." I assume that the letter has something to do with
> memory,
> > but I'm having a hard time finding any passages in Keats's letters to
> Bailey
> > that directly deal with memory. Has anyone figured out the specific
> Keats
> > passage that H.H. might be referring to?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike Donohue
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
> >
>
>
> This message and any attachments contain information, which may be
> confidential
> or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please refrain
from
> any
> disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this information. Please be
> aware
> that such actions are prohibited. If you have received this
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> in
> error, kindly notify us by calling 1-800-262-4723 or e-mail to
> helpdesk@bbdo.com. We appreciate your cooperation.
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Mike,
>
> Having read Keats's letters and found nothing in those addressed to
Bailey
> to suggest a Proustian theme, I took Humbert's assertion to mean that his
> article had intentionally been in jest. HH notes without disappointment that
> the article provoked chuckles from the few scholars who read it. I think VN
was
> prone to enjoying this sort of humor. Possibly something of the sort was among
> the minute idea seeds out of which grew the masterpiece Pale Fire.
>
> Andrew Brown
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum on behalf of Donald B. Johnson
> Reply To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:48 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Spam: Query: Lolita and Keats-Bailey correspondence?>
>
> Dear List,
>
> A Lolita question: Humbert notes (p. 16 in the Vintage edition) that
he
> wrote an article about "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to
> Benjamin Bailey." I assume that the letter has something to do with
> memory,
> but I'm having a hard time finding any passages in Keats's letters to
> Bailey
> that directly deal with memory. Has anyone figured out the specific
> Keats
> passage that H.H. might be referring to?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Donohue
>
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