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always connected somehow with this novel.
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So, I'm going to ask you to read the afterword,
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"On a Book Entitled ." When you read that,
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you'll notice that the word "throbs" comes back.
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The first impulse to write this novel is described as a throb.
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The throb is of course undeniably associated with Humbert's
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rising desire in that physical way, and there is that emotionalized version of that,
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the throbbing heart of romantic cliche.
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It comes back and forth in his memoirs too.
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In that word appears.
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It's interesting.
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As the essays move chronologically-- they were written over a period of