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Is There a Bias?
Nabokov never wanted a girl to appear on the cover of that book? Like ever, in any printing? Because he thought it was about Humbert Humbert. Well not just that, he wanted to maintain, if there's a girl on the cover, then everything is literalized. He wanted to maintain that ambiguity. Although he liked Kubrick's film, I think. That makes him smoother. Makes him smarter than Stephen King, who does not like the shiny.
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