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all these things I've been saying about the delight in words
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is put in the mouth of that horrible woman, the headmistress of the Beardsley
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School, Miss Pratt, on page 197.
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Miss Pratt says to Humbert,
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"I'm always fascinated by the admirable way foreigners,
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or at least naturalized Americans, use our rich language."
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In other words, that the aesthetic discovery of english is something that
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just kind of fits comfortably into this prejudice of the dull suburban American.
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So, I'll just end there with this thought, this doubt,
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about Nabokov's own use of modernist technique in this novel,
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about the emphasis on the aesthetic here: whether it could be--
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not just that triumph of the imagination