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This is one of those passages that Nabokov points out as being special to him.
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This is Lolita playing tennis.
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So, 231.
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"My Lolita"--this is near the bottom of the page:
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had a way of raising her bent left knee
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at the ample and springy start of the service cycle,
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when there would develop and hang in
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the sun for a second a vital web of balance between toed foot,
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pristine armpit, burnished arm, and far back-flung
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racket as she smiled up with gleaming teeth at the small globe
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suspended so high in the zenith of the powerful and graceful cosmos
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she had created for the express purpose of falling upon it with a clean,