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Часть текста: but for some unknown reason she did not comewas perhaps not allowed to cometo our house; so I recall her only as a flash of natural sunshine on an indoor court. Of the rest, none had any claims to nymphetry except Eva Rosen. Avis ws a plump lateral child with hairy legs, while Mona, though handsome in a coarse sensual way and only a year older than my aging mistress, had obviously long ceased to be a nymphet, if she ever had been one. Eva Rosen, a displaced little person from France, was on the other hand a good example of a not strikingly beautiful child revealing to the perspicacious amateur some of the basic elements of nymphet charm, such as a perfect pubescent figure and lingering eyes and high cheekbones. Her glossy copper hair had Lolita’s silkiness, and the features of her delicate milky-white face with pink lips and silverfish eyelashes were less foxy than those of her likesthe great clan of intra-racial redheads; nor did she sport their green uniform but wore, as I remember her, a lot of black or cherry darka very smart black pullover, for instance, and high-heeled black shoes, and garnet-red fingernail polish. I spoke French to her...

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Часть текста: the last of twenty entries or so. It will be seem from them that for all the devil’s inventiveness, the scheme remained daily the same. First he would tempt meand then thwart me, leaving me with a dull pain in the very root of my being. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and how to do it, without impinging on a child’s chastity; after all, I had had some experience in my life of pederosis; had visually possessed dappled nymphets in parks; had wedged my wary and bestial way into the hottest, most crowded corner of a city bus full of straphanging school children. But for almost three weeks I had been interrupted in all my pathetic machinations. The agent of these interruptions was usually the Haze woman (who, as the reader will mark, was more afraid of Lo’s deriving some pleasure from me than of my enjoying Lo). The passion I had developed for that nymphetfor the first nymphet in my life that could be reached at last by my awkward, aching, timid clawswould have certainly landed me again in a sanatorium, had not the devil realized that I was to be granted some relief if he wanted to have me as a plaything for some time longer. The reader has also marked the curious Mirage of the Lake. It would have been logical on the part of Aubrey McFate (as I would like to dub that devil of mine) to arrange a small treat for me on the promised beach, in the presumed forest. Actually, the promise Mrs. Haze had made was a fraudulent one: she had not told me that Mary Rose Hamilton (a dark little beauty in her own right) was to come too, and that the two nymphets would be whispering apart,...

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Часть текста: международные составы того времени красились под дубовую обшивку, и эта дивная, тяжелая с виду вещь с медной надписью над окнами далеко превосходила в подробном правдоподобии все мои, хорошие, но явно жестяные и обобщенные, заводные поезда. Мать пробовала ее купить; увы, бельгиец-служащий был неумолим. Во время утренней прогулки с гувернанткой или воспитателем я всегда останавливался и молился на нее. Иметь в таком портативном виде, держать в руках так запросто вагон, который почти каждую осень нас уносил заграницу, почти равнялось тому, чтобы быть и машинистом, и пассажиром, и цветными огнями, и пролетающей станцией с неподвижными фигурами, и отшлифованными до шелковистости рельсами, и туннелем в горах. Снаружи сквозь витрину модель была доступнее влюбленному взгляду, чем изнутри магазина, где мешали какие-то плакаты. Можно было разглядеть в проймах ее окон голубую обивку диванчиков, красноватую шлифовку и тисненую кожу внутренних стенок, вделанные в них зеркала, тюльпанообразные лампочки… Широкие окна чередовались с более узкими, то одиночными, то парными. В некоторых отделениях уже были сделаны на ночь постели. Тогдашний величественный Норд-Экспресс (после Первой мировой войны он уже был не тот), состоявший исключительно из таких международных вагонов, ходил только два раза в неделю и доставлял пассажиров из Петербурга в Париж; я сказал бы, прямо в Париж, если бы не нужно было - о, не пересаживаться, а быть переводимым - в совершенно такой же коричневый состав на русско-немецкой границе (Вержболово-Эйдкунен), где бокастую русскую колею заменял узкий европейский путь, а березовые дрова - уголь. В памяти я могу распутать по крайней мере пять таких путешествий в Париж, с Ривьерой или Биаррицем в конце. Выбираю относящееся к 1909-му году. Мне ...

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Часть текста: she vibrate under my touch, and a strident “what d’you think you are doing?” was all I got for my pains. To the wonderland I had to offer, my fool preferred the corniest movies, the most cloying fudge. To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she wouldinvariably, with icy precisionplump for the former. There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. Did I mention the name of that milk bar I visited a moment ago? It was, of all things, The Frigid Queen. Smiling a little sadly, I dubbed her My Frigid Princess. She did not see the wistful joke. Oh, d not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impressin that I did not manage to be happy. Readeer must understand that in the possession and thralldom of a nymphet the enchanted traveler stands, as it were, beyond happiness. For there is no other bliss on earth comparable to that of fondling a nymphet. It is hors concours , that bliss, it belongs to another class, another plane of sensitivity. Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradisea paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flamesbut still a paradise. The able psychiatrist who studies my caseand whom by now Dr. Humbert has plunged, I trust, into a state of leporine fascinationis no doubt anxious to have me take Lolita to the seaside and have me find there, at last, the “gratification” of a lifetime urge, and release from the “subconscious” obsession of an incomplete childhood romance with the initial little Miss Lee. Well, comrade, let me tell you that I did look for a beach, though I also have to confess that by the time we reached its mirage of gray water, so many delights had already been granted me by my traveling companion that the search for a Kingdom by the...

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Часть текста: and a half bathrooms, the result of two apartments having been recently fused. The sequence is: kitchen, living-dining room, my wife's room, my room, a former kitchenette now full of my papers, and our son's former room, now converted into a study. The apartment is! cluttered with books, folders, and files. What might be termed rather grandly a library is a back room housing my published works, and there are additional shelves in the attic whose skylight is much frequented by pigeons and Alpine choughs. I am giving this meticulous description to refute a distortion in an interview published recently in another New York magazine-- a long piece with embarrassing misquotations, wrong intonations, and false exchanges in the course of which I am made to dismiss the scholarship of a dear friend as "pedantry" and to poke ambiguous fun at a manly writer's tragic fate. Is there any truth in the rumor that you are thinking of leaving Montreux forever? Well, there is a rumor that sooner or later everybody living now in Montreux will leave it forever. Lolita is an extraordinary Baedecker of the United States. What fascinated you about American motels? The fascination was purely utilitarian. My wife used to drive me (Plymouth, Oldsmobile, Buick, Buick Special, Impala-- in that order of brand) during several seasons, many thousands of miles every season, for the sole purpose of collecting Lepidoptera-- all of which are now in three museums (Natural History in New York City, Comparative Zoology at Harvard, Comstock Hall at Cornell). Usually we spent only a day or two in each motorcourt, but sometimes, if the hunting was good, we stayed for weeks in one place. The main raison d'etre of the motel was the possibility of w! alking out straight into an aspen grove with lupines in full bloom or...

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Часть текста: overtaken, sang a song first"- to Yaroslav of yore, and to brave Mstislav who slew Rededya before the Kasog troops, and to fair Roman son of Svyatoslav. To be sure, brothers, Boyan did not [really] set ten falcons upon a flock of swans: his own vatic fingers he laid on the live strings, which then twanged out by themselves a paean to princes. So let us begin, brothers, this tale- from Vladimir of yore to nowadays Igor. who girded his mind with fortitude, and sharpened his heart with manliness; [thus] imbued with the spirit of arms, he led his brave troops against the Kuman land in the name of the Russian land. Boyan apostrophized O Boyan, nigh tingale of the times of old! If you were to trill [your praise of] these troops, while hopping, nightingale, over the tre e of thought; [if you were] flying in mind up to the clouds; [if] weaving paeans around these times, [you were] roving the Troyan Trail, across fields onto hills; then the song to be sung of Igor, that grandson of Oleg [, would be]: "No storm has swept falcons across wide fields; flocks of daws flee toward the Great Don"; or you might intone thus, vatic Boyan, grandson of Veles: "Steeds neigh beyond the Sula; glory rings in Kiev; trumpets blare in Novgorod[-Seversk]; banners are raised in Putivl." Vsievolod's speech Igor waits for his dear brother Vsevolod. And Wild Bull Vsevolod [arrives and] says to him: "My...

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Часть текста: знаком незаконнорожденных 1 «Говорю свободно по-английски, по-французски и по-немецки», — писала Вера в своих иммиграционных бумагах, и это впечатляет. В отношении языка нынешнее третье перемещение оказалось самым неудачным. Вера, которая весь берлинский период проработала с английским языком, знала его далеко не безупречно; в отличие от мужа, она никогда не бывала в англоязычной стране, тем более не училась и не имела там никаких дел. Она вспоминала, что спустя целый год после приезда в Нью-Йорк «испытывала трудности в понимании разнообразной разговорной английской речи». Сложности наиболее остро ощущались в компании университетских преподавателей, где она проводила лето 1941 года. Чем и объясняется то обстоятельство, что всякий, кто встречался с Верой в первые годы пребывания Набоковых в Америке, прежде всего поражался ее замкнутости. Всего через несколько месяцев после знакомства с Верой Слоним Набоков уже предлагал ей уехать с ним в Америку. Все еще полуреальная, как и те ранние мечты 1923 года, нынешняя жизнь оказалась куда сложнее, чем ожидалось. Набоков был беден, когда они с Верой поженились, беден, но знаменит. А теперь впервые в жизни слава не летела впереди него. Семейство бежало из Европы в полном составе, но это происходило крайне стремительно, среди (по выражению Набокова) «охваченных паникой разверстых чемоданов и взметнувшихся ураганом старых газет», не говоря о наступавших немцах. Все Верины документы и большая часть ранних изданий мужа были спрятаны в подвале у Ильи Фондаминского, и из этого имущества после удалось отыскать лишь малую толику. В тридцать восемь лет Вера оказалась с шестилетним сыном на руках [85], примерно с...

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Часть текста: promise I had made her on the eve (whatever she had set her funny little heart ona roller rink with some special plastic floor or a movie matinee to which she wanted to go alone), I happened to glimpse from the bathroom, through a chance combination of mirror aslant and door ajar, a look on her face… that look I cannot exactly describe… an expression of helplessness so perfect that it seemed to grade into one of rather comfortable inanity just because this was the very limit of injustice and frustrationand every limit presupposes something beyond ithence the neutral illumination. And when you bear in mind that these were the raised eyebrows and parted lips of a child, you may better appreciate what depths of calculated carnality, what reflected despair, restrained me from falling at her dear feet and dissolving in human tears, and sacrificing my jealousy to whatever pleasure Lolita might hope to derive from mixing with dirty and dangerous children in an outside world that was real to her. And I have still other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain. Once, in a sunset-ending street of Beardsley, she turned to little Eva Rosen (I was taking both nymphets to a concert and walking behind them so close as almost to touch them with my person), she turned to Eva, and so very serenely and seriously, in answer to something the other had said about its being better to die than hear Milton Pinski, some local schoolboy she knew,...

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