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\nSecond Impression 1959Third Impression I960  \n# FOREWORD\n\n'LOLITA,or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,'such were thetwo titles under which the writer of the present note received the strangepages it preambulates.'Humbert Humbert’,their author,had died in legalcaptivity,of coronary thrombosis,on November 16,1952,a few days beforehis trial was scheduled to start.His lawyer,my good friend and relation,Clarence Choate Clark,Esq.,now of the District of Columbia bar,inasking me to edit the manuscript,based his request on a clause in his client'swill which empowered my eminent cousin to use his discretion in all matterspertaining to the preparation of 'Lolita'for print.Mr Clark's decisionmay have been influenced by the fact that the editor of his choice had justbeen awarded the Poling Prize for a modest work(Do the Senses makeSense?\")wherein certain morbid states and perversions had been discussed.  \nMy task proved simpler than either of us had anticipated.Save for thecorrection of obvious solecisms and a careful suppression of a few tenaciousdetails that despite'H.H.''s own efforts still subsisted in his text as sign-posts and tombstones(indicative of places or persons that taste wouldconceal and compassion spare),this remarkable memoir is presented intact.Its author's bizarre cognomen is his own invention;and,of course,thismask—through which two hypnotic eyes seem to glowhad to remainunlifted in accordance with its wearer's wish.While 'Haze'only rhymeswith the heroine's real surname,her first name is too closely interwoundwith the inmost fibre of the book to allow one to alter it;nor(as the readerwill perceive for himself)is there any practical necessity to do so.Referencesto 'H.H.''s crime may be looked up by the inquisitive in the daily papersfor September I952;its cause and purpose would have continued to remaina complete mystery,had not this memoir been permitted to come under myreading lamp.  \nFor the benefit of old-fashioned readers who wish to follow the destiniesof the ‘real'people beyond the ‘true'story,a few details may be given asreceived from Mr'Windmuller',of'Ramsdale’,who desires his identitysuppressed so that 'the long shadow of this sorry and sordid business'shouldnot reach the community to which he is proud to belong.His daughter,'Louise',is by now a college sophomore.'Mona Dahl'is a student in Paris.‘Rita'has recently married the proprietor of a hotel in Florida.Mrs  \n‘Richard F.Schiller'died in childbed,giving birth to a stillborn girl,onChristmas Day 1952,in Gray Star,a setlement in the remotest North- west.'Vivian Darkbloom'has written a biography,‘My Cue',to bepublished shortly,and critics who have perused the manuscript call it herbest book.The caretakers of the various cemeteries involued report that noghosts walk.  \nViewed simply as a novel,'Lolita'deals with situations and emotionsthat would remain exasperatingly vague to the reader had their expressionbeen etiolated by means of platitudinous evasions.True,not 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