The Last of the Class Notes

Reading Lolita in Tehran
-A reading group in the Middle East that gets together and reads "banned" books from the West. It is an all women group...mostly consisting of professors and students. A few of the books on their reading list include: Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatasby, Lolita and Daisy Miller.
-These books create women characters that are strong. This group of women are reading the texts politically

We read Lolita linguistically

On the trip of lolita and HH, the first room they stayed at in the enchanted hunter was #342 and the total number of hotels they stayed at during their trip was 342.

Clare Quilty is HH's Doppelganger

Vivian Darkbloom is an anagram for VLADIMER NABOKOV
-This name was a way for Nabokov to get his name into the story. Hitchcock also likes to put himself in his works by making an appearance. You can see a glimps of him in all his movies.

Music - Patterns and repetitions, it is not meaningful of feelings.... Aesthet
Whistler's mother, "Not about my mother, but about the study of shapes and patterns."

HH is reconstructing everything from memory... this means that we don't know if we can truly trust the reality of his story, what he remembers is colored by his obsession

Take a look at "Ash Wednesday" by T.S. Eliot and compare with HH's poem at the end

MADELEINEA LOLITA and PSEUDOLUCIA HUMBERT
These are both a type of butterfly

Lolita is like the game of chess, it is about the abduction of the queen

Lolita - the novel is a discovery of style

The seven aspects in Nabokov's novel - p. 27
-Parody
-Coincidence
-Patterning
-Illusions
-The Work within the Work
-Staging of the Novel
-Authorial Voice

Dolores means sorrow

Psyche - mind (originally soul)... the historical image was a butterfly

Nymph - an immature stage of a grasshopper
Nymphet - an immature but sexually attractive girl
Nabokov created the word nymphet but he is not always given the credit

other people obsessed with little girls
Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Charles Dickons was obsessed with Little Red Riding Hood