Lupin quotes was Re: Never again

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...>
wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/907 on
12/14/04:
> 
> Naama:
> > Aren't you jumping here from favorite book to favorite 
> > character?  Lolita is a great book in my opinion too, but Hombart 
> > Hombart is  certainly not a favorite character of mine - 
> > interesting, human,  tragic, pathetic, touching, yes - but not 
> > somebody I'd like to meet. <
> 
> Pippin:
> But I wonder if Nabakov felt that way? He had to spend an awful 
> lot of time in Humbert's head.

That would correlate with all the cliches about how artists must
suffer to do great art.