Autodidact: self-taught    by V. L. Craven  Laughter in the Dark
001. 7-8: In any case, he made [the idea] his own by liking it,
playing with it, letting it grow upon him, and that goes to make
lawful property in the free city of the mind. 002. 13: No, you
can’t take a pistol and plug a girl you don’t even know, simply
because she attracts you. 003.  15: …surely the Cupid serving
him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.  L R
Lolita 001. [Foreword] This commentator may be excused for
repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures,
namely that ‘offensive’ is frequently but a synonym for
‘unusual'; and a great work of art is of course always original,
and thus by its very nature should come as a more or less
shocking surprise. 003. I remember the thing so exactly because
I wrote it really twice. First, I jotted down each entry in
pencil (with many erasures and corrections) on the leaves of
what is commercially known as a ‘typewriter tablet'; then I
copied it out with obvious abbrevi