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and the way he uses them.
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And then, at the very end,
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I'm going to try to connect that to nabokov's exile and the themes of exile.
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So, let's start with an example.
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If you look on page 15, Humbert describes his adolescence, his education:
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At first I planned to take a degree in psychiatry
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as many manqué talents do; but I was even more manqué than that;
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a peculiar exhaustion-- i am so oppressed, doctor-- set in,
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and I switched to English literature,
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where so many frustrated poets
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end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds.
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[Well, that's why I'm in graduate school!]