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disguise, a great, big, handsome hunk of movieland
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manhood, the vacuum of my soul managed to
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suck in every detail of her bright beauty and these I checked against
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the features of my dead bride.
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A little later of course she, this nouvelle, this Lolita,
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my lolita, was to eclipse completely her prototype.
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All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal
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consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past."
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And I think there's a reason why there are quotations around that
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princedom by the sea and why it's Poe: a fatal consequence--
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not just of his early love for Annabel Lee--
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but a consequence of the poetry.