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Часть текста: To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she wouldinvariably, with icy precisionplump for the former. There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. Did I mention the name of that milk bar I visited a moment ago? It was, of all things, The Frigid Queen. Smiling a little sadly, I dubbed her My Frigid Princess. She did not see the wistful joke. Oh, d not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impressin that I did not manage to be happy. Readeer must understand that in the possession and thralldom of a nymphet the enchanted traveler stands, as it were, beyond happiness. For there is no other bliss on earth comparable to that of fondling a nymphet. It is hors concours , that bliss, it belongs to another class, another plane of sensitivity. Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradisea paradise whose skies were...
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Часть текста: to meet, proved on the whole disappointing. There was Opal Something, and Linda Hall, and Avis Chapman, and Eva Rosen, and Mona Dahl (save one, all these names are approximations, of course). Opal was a bashful, formless, bespectacled, bepimpled creature who doted on Dolly who bullied her. With Linda Hall the school tennis champion, Dolly played singles at least twice a week: I suspect Linda was a true nymphet, but for some unknown reason she did not comewas perhaps not allowed to cometo our house; so I recall her only as a flash of natural sunshine on an indoor court. Of the rest, none had any claims to nymphetry except Eva Rosen. Avis ws a plump lateral child with hairy legs, while Mona, though handsome in a coarse sensual way and only a year older than my aging mistress, had obviously long ceased to be a nymphet, if she ever had been one. Eva Rosen, a displaced little person from France, was on the other hand a good example of a not strikingly beautiful child revealing to the perspicacious amateur some of the basic elements of nymphet charm, such as a perfect pubescent figure and lingering eyes and high cheekbones. Her glossy copper hair had Lolita’s silkiness, and the features of her delicate milky-white face with pink lips and...
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Часть текста: that Lo was still sound asleep (mouth open, in a kind of dull amazement at the curiously inane life we all had rigged up for her) and satisfied myself that the precious contents of the “luizetta” were safe. There, snugly wrapped in a white woolen scarf, lay a pocket automatic: caliber. 32, capacity of magazine 8 cartridges, length a little under one ninth of Lolita’s length, stock checked walnut, finish full blued. I had inherited it from the late Harold Haze, with a 1938 catalog which cheerily said in part: “Particularly well adapted for use in the home and car as well as on the person.” There it lay, ready for instant service on the person or persons, loaded and fully cocked with the slide lock in safety position, thus precluding any accidental discharge. We must remember that a pistol is the Freudian symbol of the Ur-father’s central forelimb. I was now glad I had it with meand even more glad that I had learned to use it two years before, in the pine forest around my and Charlotte’s ...
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Часть текста: changing cars were figments of my persecution mania, recurrent images based on coincidence and chance resemblance. Soyons logiques , crowed the cocky Gallic part of my brainand proceeded to rout the notion of a Lolita-maddened salesman or comedy gangster, with stooges, persecuting me, and hoaxing me, and otherwise taking riotous advantage of my strange relations with the law. I remember humming my panic away. I remember evolving even an explanation of the “Birdsley” telephone call… But if I could dismiss Trapp, as I had dismissed my convulsions on the lawn at Champion, I could do nothing with the anguish of knowing Lolita to be so tantalizingly, so miserably unattainable and beloved on the very even of a new era, when my alembics told me she should stop being a nymphet, stop torturing me. An additional, abominable, and perfectly gratuitous worry was lovingly prepared for me in Elphinstone. Lo had been dull and silent during the last laptwo hundred mountainous miles uncontaminated by smoke-gray sleuths or zigzagging zanies. She hardly glanced at the famous, oddly shaped, splendidly flushed rock which jutted above the mountains and had been the take-off for nirvana on the part of a temperamental show girl. The town was newly built, or rebuilt, on the flat floor of a seven-thousand-foot-high valley; it would...
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Часть текста: Original of Laura». Он немного помрачнел и ответил, что не может решиться уничтожить ее, как завещал отец, и что, возможно, ограничится публикацией нескольких фрагментов в своем переводе на итальянский. Владимир Набоков оставил своим близким – жене и сыну – очень трудное нравственное задание, да еще с contradictio in adjecto (следует из любви к нему исполнить его волю – уничтожить рукопись неоконченного романа, но сама любовь к его сочинениям не дает это сделать), и нет ничего удивительного в том, что принятию решения о публикации предшествовали многолетние раздумья и колебания. Прошло еще десять лет, прежде чем я узнал продолжение этой истории. Рукопись «Лауры» все еще не была уничтожена. Число исследователей, прочитавших ее, за это время мало‑помалу стало увеличиваться, и хотя никто из них не разглашал ее содержания, кое‑что стало известно – с фантастическими домыслами тех, кто карточек в руках не держал. Недосягаемая «Лаура» казалась мне важным и даже, быть может, ключевым логическим звеном в длинной цепочке умозаключений, без которого нельзя закончить выкладки и вывести искомое. В 1998 году я не мог и предполагать, что десять лет спустя окажусь среди тех немногих исследователей и издателей, кто первыми прочитают этот манускрипт. За несколько лет до того, в 2004 году, Дмитрий Набоков позволил мне ознакомиться с архивными материалами его отца, хранящимися в Нью‑Йорке и Вашингтоне. Тогда, в отделанном дубом прохладном зале коллекции братьев Берг, расположенной в Публичной библиотеке Нью‑Йорка, я узнал из записных книжек Набокова историю создания «Лауры» и домыслил последнюю и...