LAST lewis carroll post

Cocktail party conversation: Nabokov translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Russian. Humbert Humbert Carroll Carroll Nabokov Nabokov, it's so difficult to keep track of all the perverts...

"I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert. Have you seen those photographs of him with little girls? He would make arrangements with aunts and mothers to take the children out. He was never caught, except by one girl who wrote about him when she was much older."

Vladimir Nabokov, Dec. 1966 Vogue

Annie Leibovitz 2003 Vogue shoot

One more thing: The novel Nabokov was working on when he died, The Original of Laura, has been published (well, excerpts of it) in Playboy Magazine.

ABN