An Index to Strong Opinions
by John DeMoss
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Fabergé eggs, 171, 171n
“Fables of Our Time,” 312
Fakistan, 98
fame, 192

“Lolita is famous, not I,” 107
Family Tree, 187-188
“famous fish story,” 42
Fanny, 305
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 218n, 247n
Fascists, 187, 214
father, N’s (see Nabokov, V. D.)
Father Brown, 174
Fathers and Children, 230
Feast of Flowers, 81
Felix, 84
“Female of Lycaeides Sublivens Nab., The,” 315-318
femme partagée, La, 175
Féraudi, 202
Fernie, 199
Festival Committee, 212
Field, Andrew, 192, 301
Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe, 331-335
Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains, A, 319
Fields, W. C., 166
film
of Laughter in the Dark, 137
of Lolita, 3, 49, 217
N’s novels into --, 162
novel and --, 164
sex in --, 137
Find What the Sailor Has Hidden, 171
Finnegans Wake, 71, 74, 102-103, 151
Finnish TV, 162
fir, 234
Firbank, 213
firebird, 193
First Men on the Moon, The, 175
FitzGerald, 246
Flaubert, 32, 43, 46, 57, 62, 77, 80
flea, 234
“Flesh Flies,” 330
flights and escapes, 132
Florence, 169, 204
“Florentine Flowergirls,” 101
flying saucer, 130
Fogg, Phileas, 43
Ford, Alice, 329-330
Forster, E. M., 95
Forster’s Furry, 332
four-letter words, 3
France, 28, 54, 55, 192, 212, 239, 271, 290, 312
Southern --, 199, 329
France, Anatole, 155
Francesco di Gentile, 168
Franz, 296
freedom, 149
“Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art,” 34, 35
French cinema, 164
French lessons, 127
French New Novel, 173
Freud, 18, 29, 47, 66, 101, 114, 115-116, 127, 156, 215, 220, 237, 262, 305-306
Freudians, (and psychoanalysis) 23, 145
Freya, 334
Fridberg, Mr. Morris, 245
“Frieders, Diron,” 220
Frigga, 334
Fritillaries, 200
Arctic, 334
Polar, 334
Twin-spot, 331
Wolfensberger’s and Thor’s, 332
“full professor,” 27, 132
Fulmerford, 34
Furry Blue, 332
Fussell, Mr., 213
future, 100
Fyodor, 76, 119

Gallimard, 211, 278
Galsworthy, 57
games, 117
Ganin, 161, 179
Garbo, 287
Garden of Delights, 306
garden of Montreux Palacw Hotel, 55
Garnett, Mrs., 57
Garnham, Nicholas, 115
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 199
general ideas, 33, 41, 136
“general reader, the,” 148
generalizations, 142
Geneva, 49, 110, (Lake) 60, 62, 110
Genghis Khan, 119
genius, 146-147, 283
Gentile, Francesco di, 168, 169
geography of Zembla and Northern Russia, 91-92
Germany, 26, 54, 67, 101, 118, 192
German
film, 161
language, 151, 189
romanticism, 264
TV, 162
Ghéhenno, 228
Ghost, King’s, 60
ghosts, 196
Gift, The, 9, 13-14, 52, 65, 68, 75n, 76, 156, 178, 193, 287
Gilman, Richard, 302
gingko, 58
Gippius, Valdimir Vasilievich, 299
girls, little, 184
Girodias, Maurice, 99, 211-212, 268-279, 279n
Glory, 88, 193
God, 45, 147, 265
Godunov-Cherdyntsev, Count, 65
Goethe, 189, 246
Gofman, 245
Gogol, 28, 51, 52, 62, 64, 65, 83, 84, 101, 103, 151, 156
Gold, Herbert, 93, 298, 313
Gold Rush, The, 163
Goldwin Smith Hall, 22, 205
Goodman, Mr., 73
Gordon, John, 275
Gorki, 244
Gorky, Maxim, 57
governesses
Mademoiselle, 171n
Miss Langton, 202
Gradus, 165n
Grall, Monique, 278
Grand Canyon, 27
Grand Hotel du Miroir, 298
Granite Pass, 199
Grass Jewel, 333
Graun, Antoinette, 188
Graun, Carl Heinrich, 188
“gray board,” 294
Great Beaver, The, 165n
Great Dictator, The, 163
“Great Tales,” 312
Greek masks, 137
Greek myths (“and private parts”), 66
“Green Heron,” 329
Green Jew, The, 170
Green-underside Blue, 333
Grren-veined White, 60, 332
Greene, Graham, 139, 275
Gregor, 55, 90-91, 156
Griboedov, 234, 266
Grinnell’s Blue, 182
Grisons, 199, 289
Grossman, Henry, 46
Groucho, 165n
group activities, 48
groups, 64-65, 114
Grove Press, 85, 268
growth of a novel, 31
Gstaad, 307n
Guerard, Albert J., 297
Guernica, 167
Guevara, 158

H. H. (see Humbert Humbert)
Hades, 189, 239
Hairstreak, Nogell’s, 331
hair-thinning lotion, xi-xii
Hakluyt, 262
Hall of Mirrors, 161
hallucinations, 129, 144-145
Hamaeris, 329
“Hamburg, Mark,” 220
Hamilton, Thomas, 217
Hamlet, 60
“Handle, The,” 287
“Happiest I’ve Been, The,” 313
Hardy, Laurel and, 163n-164n
hare, 237
Hargreaves, Brian, 334
Harper’s Bazaar, 289
Harpotski, Chicoski and Baronoff, 165n
Harris, 6
Harvard, 49, 103, 132, 161, 190, 198, 240, 314, 315, 318, 326
hawkmoths, 286, (White-Striped) 317
Hawthorne, 64
Haze, Charlotte, 21
Haze, Dolores (see also Lolita), 25
Heaths, 334
Hebrew, 259
Heine, 189
Helen, N’s mother, 188, 202
Hellens, Franz, 174-175, 175n
Hemiargus, 319
-- (Echinargus) isola Reakirt, 327
-- (senso lato), 320
Hemingway, 42, 80
Hermann, 75, 84
Herzog, 82
Hide and Seek, 171
Higgins, L. C. 331
hippies, 139
Hiroshima, 101
Histoire d’O, 270
historical novels, 43
history, 138
Hladik, 80
Hoback River, Tetons, 324
Hodasevich, Vladislav, xii-xiii, 89
“On Hodasevich,” 223-227
Hoffman, 83
Hoffman, Kurt, 185
Hofman, 331
Holland, 326
Hollander, John, 240
Hollywood, 6, 93
Holmes, Sherlock, 43, 129, 174
Homer, 55, 90, 189
homosexuals, 104, 116
Honon, William, 216
Horace, 189
hotels, 62, 149, 298
Ascor, 196
Montreux Palace, 55, 115, 197
N’s ideal, 201
Houghton Library, 161
Houghton Mifflin, 319
Housman, 43
“how” (the “--,” the “what,” the “so what”), 66
Howard, Jane, 46
P.S. to Miss Howard, 50
Howard, Richard, 298
howler, defined, 235
Hughes, Robert P., 51, 122-123, 295-296
Humbert, Humbert, 16, 20, 24, 25, 26, 73, 81, 83, 94, 193, 211, 298
Hummingbird, Broad-Tailed, 317
Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 287


Idaho, 315, 317, 323
Idas Blue, 331
ideas (see also general ideas, generalizations), 66, 121, 147
imagination
a child’s, 25
and knowledge, 32
and “reality,” 154
Impala, 198
imperial family of Russia, 171n
impersonation, 123, 298
impressionists, 168
“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” 313
In Search of Lost Time, 57
incest, 122
index cards, 30, 100
insect labelling compared to labelling writers, 63
insecticides, 150
isolation, 139
insomnia, 29, 110, 129
inspiration, 31
“Inspiration,” 308-314
intellectual expatriation, Russian, 36
intercostal neuralgia, 15
interviews (on giving), 4-5, 8, 157-158
invented languages, 81
Invisible Man, The, 175
Invitation to a Beheading, 24, 66, 68, 71, 73-74, 76, 83, 92n, 156, 164, 166, 193, 287, 290, 295, 306
opera on Danish TV, 162
Russian version, 97
involution, 74
Iran, 100
iridule, 179
islands, Mediterranean, 199
Italics Are Mine, The, 290
Italy, 49, 109, 169, 191, 195, 199, 298
Ithaca, New York, 55, 105, 122, 153, 19?, 205, 218, 230, 247, 268, 270, 319
Ivanov, Georgiy, 39
Ivory Tower, 308

jacarandas, 6
Jackson, 322
Jackson Hole, 325
James, Henry, 64, 147
Jannings, Emil, 163
jazz, 18
“jeans” translated into Russian, 47
Jeep, 108
Jesus Christ, 97, 290
Jewel, Grass, 332
jewels, crown, 92
joke (Is life a --?), 119
Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc., 323
Joyce, James, (see also individual titles by), 5, 22, 30, 43, 57, 62, 71-72, 74, 76, 85-87, 90, 102-103, 118-119, 124, 139, 147, 151, 172, 246, 292, 312
Julia, Julie (Wolmar), 236, 257
Jungfrau, Mt., 262

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