Gilbert Adair, The Dreamers

“They were seated in the very front row and, as they listened to Trenet, their eyes glittered like those of their neighbours. Their tears, however, when they came, welled up from quote another source.”

 - Last sentence from The Dreamers, by Gilbert Adair

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods 

Richard Rorty, Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty 

Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver, script of Martin Scorsese’s film (1976)

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita 

Lolita’s reading Lolita

Ennio Morricone - Lolita Film Soundtrack (1997), Lolita (finale)

Vladimir Nabokov in On a Book Titled Lolita (1956), on his dismaying experiences shopping the manuscript to American publishers during the spring of 1954.

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Lolita audiobook excerpt (performed by Jeremy Irons) - Monique

In his pre-Lolita years, prowling the Paris streets for nymphet prostitutes, Humbert Humbert bumps into “a short slim girl” named Monique…