Re: Nabokov.
Mistalina (beatific@hempseed.com)
Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:35:14
At 02:37 PM 9/20/98 +1000, you wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me which book Sting (of the
>> Police) refers to in "Don't Stand So Close To Me" when he says:
>>
>> "It's no use
>> He sees her
>> He starts to shake and cough
>> Just like the
>> Old man in
>> That book by Nabokov."
>
>I thought this was one of those `The Ants Are My Friends' by Bob Dylan
>dealies, when I first read it (: I think Matthew's right, Humbert Humbert
>would
>certainly fit in with the theme of the song, although I don't remember him
>doing any coughing. Although I guess at a stretch it could be Pnin (but I
>don't know that Sting knows that much about Russio-American literature)
>
This is a very LATE reply...and perhaps already addressed, but Sting was a
Lit major. I asked the same question myself, and that was the reply. One
learns new things everyday!
One of these days I'll catch up with my mail.
Misty
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other
man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
--Clarence Darrow