"The more you look, the more you see and discover..."

As I read Lolita, I find myself in a daze and constantly re-reading the same passages. There are so many details, so much description that I have to stop often to remind myself what I just read. I am amazed at the discoveries others have found because quite honestly, I never would have paid so much attention to those sorts of things. I was at a loss as to where to start and began to simply research various places or things mentioned I thought might be interesting, which led me to minor yet interesting discoveries, in my opinion.





I looked through many dates and names...nothing held my atttention. Then I came upon Briceland (The Enchanted Hunters). I went to google (of course) and found Briceland in HUMBoldt County. I then found The Humboldt County Biography Project with a long list of names. Similar to the class list there was repetition of names. Interesting enough, all the last names beginning with Q began...QUI. I didn't know how much further to go with this so I switched to shadowgraphs, which Lolita mentioned in her camp experience. I came upon shadowgraph postcards through the trusty wikipedia. This led me to find that shadowgraph postcards were at one time "innocent" images that display a "saucy" image when held up to the light.



Lastly, I found an interesting connection on pages 104 and 109. On page 104, Humbert describes Jean Farlow as "hansome in a carved-inian sort of way, with burnt sienna complexion." On Page 109 Nabokov then metnions the date August 15, 1947 as the ay he attempts to write but gets nowhere because thoughts of Lolita fill his mind- this is the day in which India gained their independence. What are the chances? 1 in 2? 1 in 3?