july 9th, 2009, 11:12 pm
this is a successful week. the nights are rough, but the days are pretty good.
don’t say you’ll leave me
‘cause i know you won’t leave me
you know it took years for you to stayi don’t love you to death
but i’d die if you left
beulah, “night is the day turned inside out”
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 unconscious herself of her fantastic power.
nabokov, lolita, 17
I knew she would [...] even close her eyes as Hollywood teaches.
ibid., 48
Distant mountains. Near mountains. More mountains; bluish beauties never attainable, or ever turning into inhabited hill after hill [...]
ibid., 156
[...] how much she looked—had always looked—like Botticelli’s russet Venus—
ibid., 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