Comments on: Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita and Poems http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/245 Excavating the tar pits of popular culture Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:45:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Glovebox http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/245#comment-50 Glovebox Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/245#comment-50 Excellent! I bought this Folkways album nearly 20 years ago from my local library for 60 pence. (Why libraries sell this sort of thing I really don't know, but the death of the British Library System is a topic for another time.) I love the precision of Nabokov's reading of Quilty's murder, in contrast to the pretty messy pantomime in Kubricks's film. And the film manages to remove the horror of Nabokov's description – murder as degradation: "Master retired to the master bedroom with a burst of royal purple where his ear had been." I'm sure my copy is heavily scratched and I haven't had access to a record player for 10 years at least, so thanks very much for this post. Very cool. Excellent! I bought this Folkways album nearly 20 years ago from my local library for 60 pence. (Why libraries sell this sort of thing I really don’t know, but the death of the British Library System is a topic for another time.)

I love the precision of Nabokov’s reading of Quilty’s murder, in contrast to the pretty messy pantomime in Kubricks’s film. And the film manages to remove the horror of Nabokov’s description – murder as degradation:

“Master retired to the master bedroom with a burst of royal purple where his ear had been.”

I’m sure my copy is heavily scratched and I haven’t had access to a record player for 10 years at least, so thanks very much for this post. Very cool.

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