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two modes of creativity embodied in Lolita,
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in that one act, and in that name.
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She is giving birth to a real, live thing--
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not a creation that is more like stone, but an actual person.
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And so, what you see is not just the paradox of wanting your work of art to be a living work of art,
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to be personified in that way or made animate that then exposes it to mortality--
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the Woolworth's workers
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who don't read it and who think no one in the world ever reads it,
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that kind of risk.
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Your book cannot live if it has no reader to meet it at the
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top of that mountain.
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But Dolly embodies that other kind of creativeness: