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but as that older-fashioned sense of the word: "the fancy," the imagination.
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So, imagination is a privileged realm for Nabokov,
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and it is a realm that always has about it that golden glow.
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And as you read ,try to notice how much light imagery there is.
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For Nabokov, sunlight, goldenness--all those midges,
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the golden midges, the downy golden hair on Lolita's limbs,
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her tawny skin-- all of that goldenness is very much
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of a piece with the world of imagination.
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So, it's as if imagination makes everything glitter,
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and its color is that of the most aesthetic of metals, of gold.
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So, keep these things in mind as you read,
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and in the next couple of lectures you'll see more of the development of argument about the book,