You Say It's Her Birthday?

      Hard as it is to believe, Vladimir Nabokov's classic Lolita was first published a mere 46 years ago today. The book, and that infamous title, is now so thoroughly ingrained into our cultural consciousness that even those loathe to put eyes to prose are familiar with it and its film incarnations.   I can only imagine the furor would any high school dare to teach the book.   Groucho Marx, ever the card, explained his own plans for the book:

I plan to put off reading 'Lolita' for six years -- until she's eighteen.

It's a terrific novel, and better remembered as such rather than as a tale of prurience and parthenophilia--- and I can't believe I've used that word twice on this blog this week. Simply put: go read it, if you haven't already; if you have, it's worth revisitng.