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...passion for thirteen-year-old Dolores Haze are huge. A major character, Clare Quilty, doesn't appear until the last scene of the book, though his presence is felt throughout. Occasionally the entire story-line teeters on the brink of unreality, as when Quilty follows Humbert and Lolita from motel to motel across the country. And the whole plot of the novel is seen through the decidedly abnormal eye sof Humbert: to make it objective is inevitably to falsify...
...went to barber's school every Saturday morning after Friday night games-60 miles away and 7 a. m., to boot), this co-captain Billy Morrison who was nicknamed "Porky" because he weighed 180 pounds in 6th grade, and who had worked as a bouncer at the Safari Beach Motel, which was the sin center for every spring vacation college-riot-party-guzzle ever since sixth grade (he threw out some 2nd string tackle from L. S. U. in 1963, the year they still had Paul Dietzel and the Chinese Bandits) yes, Patty, the sad-eyed girl, tough Southern dark...
Ancillary boosts to the economy would include sales of fireworks, along with benefits to the motel and recreation industries...
...Harvard won to break a two-year Army string and everyone decided that the thing to do was to go back to the Holiday Inn and celebrate. So the manager called ahead and informed the motel that it should put out all the champagne in the house...
...prison with far more sympathy than antipathy in the capital, where he still retains a strange kind of trust. Just a few days earlier, he was able to borrow more than $500,000 from several banks to continue a condominium development he has started next to his Carousel motel in Ocean City, Md. Still, he says, "Russia wouldn't have treated me the way this country has." In the next breath he adds: "But I have no great resentment. No, this is a great country. It's done a lot for me. I like to think I have...