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The low-down on ‘Lolita’: how pop culture rewrote Nabokov’s brilliance | Mad Women

Hailey Pitcher September 19, 2023
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.” These three opening lines are from Russian author Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 magnum opus, “Lolita.”
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