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| The Police – Don't Stand So Close To Me Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Of course Nabokov was Russian by birth, but he fled in his childhood after his father was murdered and never returned. He lived in Germany, France, America, and Switzerland (I probably missed a couple other countries as well). But that doesn't matter. What matters is that Lolita is an AMERICAN novel, just as Nabokov was an American citizen when he wrote it. To say that it is a Russian novel is false, regardless of the author's place of birth. |
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| The Police – Don't Stand So Close To Me Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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1. 'Lolita' is not a Russian novel. It is an American novel, written in America in English.
2. It's 'Nabokov,' not 'Nabakov.'
3. This is the theme song to my adolescence. |
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| Counting Crows – She Don't Want Nobody Near Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Adam uses double-negatives all the time. It's about the struggle of wanting everyone to just go away, the avoidance of being close to people, but then realizing that the consequence of that is being alone. I love how the girl brushes it off over & over again with, "It's okay. It's all right." Such a great song. |
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| The Wallflowers – We're Already There Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This song seems to be about being with someone who you know it's right for you. You're sort of wasting your time and you realize that it's going nowhere, but you'd rather be with this person that alone ("safer in pairs", "no amount of nightmares could compare to the thought of only silence"). The relationship has gone as far as it will go ("baby, we're already there") and the speaker seems okay with that. |
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