Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955).
Elaine and I just finished re-reading Lolita. As we discovered, we each marked this passage while reading. Elaine has already posted her transcription on her blog.
Humbert Humbert’s observations (and the first-person plural pronoun) remind me of what Proust’s narrator says about the “contrast between the way individuals change and the fixity of memory.” More than coincidence, I think.
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Welp, now I'll have to revisit "Lolita" and refresh my memory of the bracingly caustic wit and the delicately framed observances I found so enjoyable in that book. Thank you.
And thank you for welp, which I now know is a word and not a typo. Esp. interesting to read the novel in these times.
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