More Lecture Notes on Lolita

Nabokov is looking for the ideal read: one who can't sleep and always reads
You need to be supernaturally receptive - everything exists as a kind of sign.
You need to know everything in order to be a good reader of Nabokov

religion = receptive to signs and symbols around you

Alfred Appel real person commenting on Nabokov
John Ray, JR PHD is a creation of Navokov, notice the symmetry
JR JR

Nabokov denies allegory or old world vs. new world














Allusion of chess game is appealing.
In chess the most humiliating and devastating move is kidnapping the other player's queen