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...Lo-lee-tah." She spoke her name like a steam radiator with consonants...
...approaches 50 (Nabokov finished the novel in 1953), Lolita remains a brilliant book, a wonderland of language and longing, with an undiminished capacity to enthrall, outrage and provoke litigation. Nabokov had to fight many obscenity battles when the book was published. Now a derivative novel, Lo's Diary (Foxrock; 292 pages; $22.95), by the Italian essayist and translator Pia Pera, has been issued--after the settling of a lawsuit brought by Nabokov's son Dimitri. He insisted that he be allowed to write a preface to the book and that 5% of its profits go to the International Pen Club...
...Lo's Diary, translated by Ann Goldstein, purports to be an on-the-spot account of the sad tryst of a girl and her stepfather--the "real" story behind Humbert's besotted ravings in a book titled Lolita. We are told that Dolores ("Lolita") Maze (not Haze) met Humbert Guibert (not Humbert) in the home of her mother Isabel (not Charlotte); that Humbert took a fancy to Lo; that he married the mother to get to the daughter; that on the mother's death, Hum and Lo took to the open road, fitfully pursued by the girl's true love...
...many disturbing episodes in Gone Boy, one stands out: Greg's moving account of how he and his wife Anne Marie sat down to discuss the case with the killer's parents, C.W. Lo and his wife Lin Lin, immigrants from Taiwan who had established a successful restaurant in Billings, Mont. When his parents visited Wayne in the Massachusetts prison where he is serving a life sentence for murder, Lin Lin recalled, he would rock in his chair "slowly, back and forth, almost as if he were nodding." When she asked him why, Wayne explained that most people who tried...
None of this would have happened if Wayne Lo, at the age of 18, had not been able to walk into a gun store, flash his driver's license and $129 and walk out with a deadly weapon. Or if he had not been able to have 200 bullets sent to him at Simon's Rock College by a mail-order arms company. To my friend Greg, there is a straightforward conclusion to be drawn from the mystery of Galen's death. "We've just got too many guns in this country. We've got to get rid of them...