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To: robnhood who wrote (40792)	11/24/2000 8:58:04 PM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 436258

Yes, I agree about Thoreau.. and I understand how one better appreciates a book when one is older. I recently read Nabokov's Lolita for the first time. Although quite commonly taught in college, it is usually taught as a modernist work. And so students are encouraged to find the symbols and metaphors, to grasp the themes. There are the obvious ones: European vs. American culture, the rise of the consumer, the absurdity of psychiatry. But then, the lush lyricism channeled through an unreliable narrator created a literary effect that would be impossible in a true modernist work. I don't think that I would have fully appreciated the book at the age of 19. More on topic, it raises my hackles for MF to use Thoreau in their defense. I have seen TV appearances where they trumpeted their portfolio returns as justification for viewers to buy their books or visit their website. Now that their returns aren't so hot, they are distancing themselves from the same portfolios. Didn't Thoreau repair to Walden Pond to escape human hypocrisy for a little while?