Vigilans wrote:
She's a mean lady let me tell you
Behind the movie, "Lolita" is one tough read for the media obsessed. That's also why the media avoids PaleFire:
Speaking the same language doesn't help, as Nabokov's moral art of the aesthete verifies. While epilepsy's ecstatic iurodivyi, but still being the idiot studying the Idiot is a more curious paradox, and playing the Gambler with the Confidence-Man, while being lectured on Job, gives my articulate speaking-in-tongues temptations of engraving Gold Tablets for Uncle GodBucks' immortality program (he's more afraid of dust now). For sure, it is best to seize on a Fine Persian Rug. And Mammon makes the irreplaceable easily replaced. At least that's what Uncle GodBucks chants in his Dollar Signs:
"Lord of Silver,
Lord of Gold,
Lord for Money,
Our Spirits sold,
Let the Poor crumble to Dust,
In God We Trust."
I believe Uncle GodBucks is mistaken, and won't be rescued by Greenspan or Ayn Rand, but this Age of Materialism is contrary to my beliefs, like most every piece of USA currency declares.
Tadzio