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The terms "scud" and "tilt" are defined in "notes" by this author, who recalled buying his French governess "Mademoiselle" a hearing aid in one memoir. (20[1])Despite (20[1])his requests, this author's wife did not destroy his unfinished The (20[1])Original of Laura after his death. (20[2])Edmund Wilson feuded (0[1])with this butterfly (20[2])collector (20[1])over his (20[1])translation (20[6])of (20[2])Eugene (20[1])Onegin. (20[1])In a novel by this author of (*) Speak, Memory framed (10[2])as a (10[2])manuscript (10[1])edited by (10[1])John Ray Jr., (10[2])the title (10[1])character is enrolled (10[1])at Beardsley (10[1])by a man whose first love is named for Poe's "Annabel Lee." (10[1])That man created by this author marries the widow Charlotte Haze (10[1])and murders the playwright Clare Quilty. For 10 points, Humbert Humbert pursues (10[1])the title "nymphet" (10[1])in what author's novel Lolita? (10[1]) (10[1]0[2])■END■

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