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and as someone who imagined himself and his young love
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fully clothed in the language of romance.
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So, it's a kind of fairy tale.
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Now the fairy tale language that is invoked here,
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"the princedom by the sea,"
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is brought back for us vividly in the scene where Humbert
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first sees Lolita.
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This is on page 39.
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So, he's walking through the house.
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The "Haze woman" is giving him his tour of the house:
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"I was still walking behind Mrs. Haze through the dining room
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when, beyond it, there came a sudden burst of greenery.