Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0005427, Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:48:22 -0700

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EDITOR's NOTE. See also Juan Martinez's Nabokov site WAXWING and its
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From: "Juan Martinez" <jmm80625@mail.ucf.edu>
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> (Found at
http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/08/02/npwed/index.html)
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> In Salon's "Nothing Personal" for today:
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> GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN ... AND RIP ON THEIR SUCCESSORS?
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> Cyndi Lauper is worried about Britney Spears and her fellow bubble-gum
popsters. Deeply concerned. They are, she says, victims of cultural
pedophilia.
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> "What's so sad is these little girls they're making into Lolitas," the
'80s icon tells the Scottish Daily Record. "If you truly stop and think
about what the songs are that they're singing, that doesn't come out of an
18-year-old. They don't have that kind of experience."
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> In fact, she says, "the propaganda that you are now feeding into the youth
is a pedophiliac type of prostitution for the young kids today."
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> Humbert Humbert everywhere? Perish the thought.
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