week 14

November 28

LOLITA 3:

• William Wilson by Edgar Allen Poe
• Humbert Humbert was not HH's real name, Nabokov just chose it because it is gross
• the main coincidences:

1. 342:

• they stayed at this many hotels
• room number at the Enchanted Hunters Hotel
• the house number they lived at with Charlotte

2. 'Hunted Enchanters'

• the name of the hotel they stayed at when HH first had his way with Lolita
• the play that Cue wrote about Lolita

• MURDER MOST FOUL: thought he was going to kill Lolita, then thought he was going to kill Charlotte, but really killed Quilty, the nephew of the town dentist
• drom= dromedary= camel
• Quilty used to date Charlotte
• both Quilty and HH were born in 1911 (we think)
• he wrote plays about Lolita called: "The Little Nymph," and "The Lady Who Loved Lightening"
• VIVIAN DARKBLOOM= VLADIMIR NABOKOV
• VN always hid himself in the books he wrote, like these people who do it too:

M. Night Shyamalon

Rembrandt

Hitchcock

Steven King

Bach

Quentin Tarantino

• all of these people were 'puppetmasters' who included themselves in their works to immortalize themselves
• in music that has no words, it is all about the music
• it can 'carry you away' because you can go wherever you want to go
• and after you listen to it and enjoy it, you realize that you were enjoying something that didn't mean anything, like Lolita
• it can be argued that Lolita isn't about anything, it has no meaning at all
• 'the smartest people in the world spend their time with art' because there isn't much time at all, so don't waste it
• there are 1,642,500 minutes in a lifetime if you live 75 years, that isn't very many minutes!
• "Art for art's sake is the best thing that a human can do" ~Walter Pater
• Oscar Wilde was a homosexual, who was accused of sodomy and died in prison! (I didn't know that!!)
• Whistler's Mother was a famous painting by James Whistler
• everyone believed that it was about his mother but it was really a study of black and white, shades, and light
• the only academic thing to study is metamorphosis