Interviewer - “The parodies of Freud in Lolita and Pale Fire suggest a  wider  familiarity  with  the good doctor than you have ever publicly granted. Would you comment on this?”

Nabokov - “Oh, I am not up to discussing again that figure of fun. He is not worthy of more attention than I have granted him  in  my novels  and  in Speak, Memory. Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private  parts. I really do not care.”





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