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I woke in the middle of the night with my heart pounding from the double expresso I'd had after dinner. Unable to get back sleep, I found myself composing a paragraph in my head, which I finally wrote down on a file card in the dark. Surprisingly, in the morning I could actually read it: "In refusing to bind Lolita to a convenient moral platform, Nabokov grants the steadfast reader entry into a larger realm of art—an autonomous universe with its own light, its own gravity, and its own perils and felicities."