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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Sitting here wishing on a cement floor




"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns."
Nobokov, Lolita











Sitting here wishing on a cement floor

Just wishing that I had just something you wore.


I miss your soup and I miss your bread

And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead.

So spill your breakfast and drip your wine

Bloody your hands on a cactus tree

Wipe it on your dress and send it to me.

-Cactus, The Pixies

3 comments:

  1. The films never did do justice to Nabokov and Humbert...but this one was definitely the best one.

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  2. Nikhat, exactly me thoughts. Nobovok wrote the narrative voice with such a pervy, poetic style, the movie was just a poignant reminder that words grab an audience's senses more so than movies.

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