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Simon Moonan.
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The version of this that comes up in the novel
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is in the midst of humbert's diary, and the diary itself,
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I should say, owes a lot to Joyce.
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And I've given you a piece of that diary to look at on your own on the handout.
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But this is the moment that directly alludes to Portrait,
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and it's really very important for understanding Nabokov's technique.
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So, page 51, near the bottom:
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Thursday: We are paying with hail and gale
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for the tropical beginning of the month.
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In a volume of the Young People's Encyclopedia
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I found a map of the States