june 23rd, 2009, 5:04 pm

i have a few more quotes from lolita before i move on to quoting anna karenina.

[S]he stands unrecognized by them and onconscious herself of her fantastic power.
nabokov, lolita, 17

I knew she would […] even close her eyes as Hollywood teaches.
nabokov, lolita, 48

Distant mountains. Near mountains. More mountains; bluish beauties never attainable, or ever turning into inhabited hill after hill […]
nabokov, lolita, 156

[…] how much she looked—had always looked—like Botticelli's russet Venus—
nabokov, lolita, 270

lolita's romanticism is amazing.

june 4th, 2009, 1:05 am

i suppose this is where bettina becomes the anti-hero:

Most likely the letter was doomed simply to lie in a box without consequences. But what matter; I'm sure she would keep it all her life as a treasure, as her pride and justification, and now, at such a moment, she remembered the letter and brought it out to take naive pride before me, to restore herself in my eyes, so that I, too, should see, and I, too, should praise. I said nothing, pressed her hand, and walked out.
dostoyevski, notes from underground, 106

may 26th, 2009, 11:32 pm

i just finished nabokov's lolita. during chapter 29 of part ii, i had the continuous urge to throw the book against a wall, hoping that it would shatter into pieces. this doesn't mean that i disliked the book—in fact, it is one of the best i've read.

—and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else.
nabokov, lolita, 277

april 23rd, 2009, 6:34 pm

i am such a lucky mess.

i'm going snowshoeing and camping this weekend.

then i'll sleep in my clothes and wait for winter to leave.

<3

april 23rd, 2009, 1:09 am

yes, we were in the same place. but we were looking in different directions! you were looking at the tree while i was consumed by the immaculate rolling green hills.

perhaps there is still some room in my life for idealism. for love. for her.

torture chambers?
god damn!
i haven't heard no shit like that in years!
edan, murder mystery