April 16, 2004
The only immortality you and I may share
It turns out Vladimir Nabokov may have stolen elements of his most famous novel from a 1916 short story in called "Lolita". To make matters worse, the pseudonymous author of the story, Heinz von Lichberg, later became a Nazi journalist.
The Nabokov family has rejected claims of plagiarism, but the literary world is abuzz with debate over the muddled distinctions beteen reference, intertextuality, borrowing, and theft.
knowthink of it) occurs, everything on monkeyfilter, for example, is data which will afford countless headaches and marvels for the students of tomorrow, for all we know centuries to come. So monkeys, as far can be determined/guessed, are all immortal. Your great great grandchildren may conceivably look up this data some year and discover what kind of hero(ine)/sage/ninny they are descened from Note: monkeyfilter has creative commons copyright [see bottom of page]