To Come to an Awesome Lecture on Reading Lolita?

Just wanted to post a friendly reminder about the Professor Harriet Hustis' Faculty Research Talk: On Reading Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita! December 3rd, 11:30-12:20, Business Building Basement. Delicious sandwiches from Ray's Sub's will be served, and it is sure to be an amazing talk, so please try to come! :-)

A link to the facebook event is here: FRT: Professor Hustis on LOLITA.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with Lolita, it's all kinds of beautiful, disturbing, horrifying, heart-moving, revolting literary goodness, about a man who is attracted to young girls.. I've posted the opening passage below; however, no familiarity with the novel is necessary for the talk on Thursday!

Hope to see you all there :)

Becky McGowan

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns."