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“What chance has a lonely surfer boy For the love of a surfer chick, With all these Humbert Humbert cats Coming on so big and sick? For me, my baby was a woman. For him she’s just another nymphet.”

Surfing Surfer Lolita Thomas Pynchon Humbert Humbert Nabakov Nymphet The Crying Of Lot 49 The Paranoids

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“I’ll put off reading Lolita for six more years until she turns 18.”

Lolita Groucho Marx Nabakov

Author:Groucho Marx

“Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a "tower," or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a "bridge." "Real towers" and "real bridges" were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral "thing" might look or even actually become "real" or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid "fog." When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with "ruined towers" and "broken bridges.”

Life Perfect Bridges Towers Fog Real Things Things Nabakov

Book:Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle