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Humbert Humbert Through The Looking Glass
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HumbertHumbert
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ELIZABETH PRIOLEAU
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HUMBERT HUMBERT THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
1Alfred
Appel,Jr.,"An InterviewwithVladimirNabokov,"in Nabokov:TheMan andHis
Work, ed. L. S. Dembo (Madison: Univ. of WisconsinPress,1967), p. 34.
2For a discussionof thissee AlfredAppel,Jr.,footnote133/1,in VladimirNabokov,The
Annotated Lolita,ed. AlfredAppel,Jr. (New York: McGraw-Hill,1970), p. 377.
3For convenience,I will referthroughout thispaper to: TheAnnotated Lolitaas Lolita;Lewis
Carroll,TheAnnotated Alice,ed. Martin Gardner(Norwich,England: PenguinBooks,1972) as
Alice;and VladimirNabokov,SpeakMemory (London: VictorGollancz Ltd., 1951) as Memory.
4Appel, "An InterviewwithVladimirNabokov,"p. 35.
5Appel, quotingNabokov in footnote133/1in TheAnnotated Lolita,p. 377.
6Page Stegner,EscapeintoAesthetics:
TheArtofVladimirNabokov (New York:WilliamMorrow,
1968), p. 20.
7For a discussion,see CharlesNicol, "The Mirrorsof SebastianKnight,"in L. S. Dembo,
ed., Nabokov:The Man and His Work(Madison: Univ. of WisconsinPress, 1967), pp. 85-95.
8Appel, footnote121/2,Lolita,p. 374.
9Appel, footnotes 53/2 and 121/2,Ibid.,pp. 360 and 374.
1oAppel, footnote296/2,Ibid.,p. 437.
1 Martin Gardner,footnote4, in TheAnnotated Alice,pp. 180-84.
12Lolita,pp. 19, 34, 89.
13Appel, "An InterviewwithVladimirNabokov," p. 34.
14Gardner,footnote4, Alice,pp. 181-82.
15Carl R. Proffer, KeystoLolita(Bloomington:Indiana Univ. Press,1968), p. 100.
16Carrollpicturesthemas "Punch and
Judy,"p. 295, and Humbertcalls his contestwith
Quiltya "pistol-packing farce,"p. 303.
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