Laurence
Hochard writes:”
Odd
as it may seem, I'd suggest "Signs and Symbols", as a short story concerned with
lust as the threshold to Hell.” He started by noting that it would seem “odd”
and I couldn’t agree more with him. Where lies the lust of the lost in it?
Perhaps Laurence could remind us of anything particular he found in the photos,
or does it lie in the similarity between a vision of a lovable arm that connects
it to a scene in Lolita? (I have no access to the quotations now). I thought the
original question was, itself, quite intriguing once we agree that everything in
life is positively dangerous. Would any Nabokovian character have ever found
himself hindered by the dangers of love, lust or beauty?