” Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,” such were the 2 titles under which the writer of today note got the weird pages it preambulates. “Humbert Humbert,” their author, had passed away in legal captivity, of coronary apoplexy, on November 16, 1952, a couple of days prior to his trial was arranged to begin. His legal representative, my buddy and relation, Clarence Choate Clark, Esq., now of the District of Columbia bar, in asking me to modify the manuscript, based his request on a provision in his client’s will which empowered my noteworthy cousin to use his discretion in all matters pertaining to the preparation of “Lolita” for print. Mr. Clark’s choice may have been affected by the reality that the editor of his choice had just been granted the Poling Prize for a modest work (” Do the Senses make good sense?”) in which certain morbid states and perversions had actually been talked about.
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