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Dreams Made Real
{or} The Tragedy of the Atlantic Ocean

Allusions to the Garden of Eden are rampant in Part One of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, but they are sparse in Part Two. In this annotation, I will try to understand why, and what the difference may mean.
The first allusion occurs on the very first page of the novel proper, in the introductory section of Part [...]

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