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> <Aw, hell...I knew I should have gotten the hell off this list before I
> found out that Salinger was Humbert Humbert.>
> 
> Now what's the matter with that?

Yes - just today I was reading the second half of the massive 2 volume
biography of Nabokov (`The American Years') and was thinking just that -
Humbert, like Salinger, does some nasty things, likes to both puzzle and
illuminate us, disgust and delight us - but in both cases, against massive
tides that should theoretically push us in the complete opposite direction
- you end up both feeling for them and liking them. And that's a credit to
the audacity and ... perhaps skill isn't the right word - of both Salinger
and Nabokov.

Camille 
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