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Text (c) Boz Scaggs, Neil Sedaka, the Lovin' Spoonful, Sting/The Police, Vladimir Nabokov, Gary Puckett, Abba, Urge Overkill, and Stephen Sondheim

So I'm taking a class on the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, and we're reading Lolita at the moment. And we got an assignment to create a visual representation of the novel.

Well, I don't know if you know, but Vladimir Nabokov and I share a neurological "disorder" (literally a disordering of responses in the brain) called synesthesia , which affected his perceptions, and the way he wrote, and affects the way I read and think about things. Specifically, as seen in this piece, I see audio as color and shape.

Now this is not to say that I don't also hear. I like to describe it by asking people if they've seen Ratatouille: specifically this scene . That's kind of what happens in my head when I hear things. It's an involuntary association of one kind of sensory stimulation to another.

So, I decided, why not use that? I mean, somebody had already done a Venn Diagram of the novel, so... (ugh).

Songs (top to bottom):
"Georgia" - Boz Scaggs
"Alice in Wonderland" - Neil Sedaka
"Younger Girl" - Lovin' Spoonful
"Don't Stand So Close to Me" - Sting
The first lines of Lolita as read by Jeremy Irons
"Young Girl" - Gary Puckett & the Union Gap
"Does Your Mother Know?" - Abba
"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" - Urge Overkill
"Hello, Little Girl" - Stephen Sondheim (from Into the Woods)

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Text (c) Boz Scaggs, Neil Sedaka, the Lovin' Spoonful, Sting/The Police, Vladimir Nabokov, Gary Puckett, Abba, Urge Overkill, and Stephen Sondheim

So I'm taking a class on the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, and we're reading Lolita at the moment. And we got an assignment to create a visual representation of the novel.

Well, I don't know if you know, but Vladimir Nabokov and I share a neurological "disorder" (literally a disordering of responses in the brain) called synesthesia , which affected his perceptions, and the way he wrote, and affects the way I read and think about things. Specifically, as seen in this piece, I see audio as color and shape.

Now this is not to say that I don't also hear. I like to describe it by asking people if they've seen Ratatouille: specifically this scene . That's kind of what happens in my head when I hear things. It's an involuntary association of one kind of sensory stimulation to another.

So, I decided, why not use that? I mean, somebody had already done a Venn Diagram of the novel, so... (ugh).

Songs (top to bottom):
"Georgia" - Boz Scaggs
"Alice in Wonderland" - Neil Sedaka
"Younger Girl" - Lovin' Spoonful
"Don't Stand So Close to Me" - Sting
The first lines of Lolita as read by Jeremy Irons
"Young Girl" - Gary Puckett & the Union Gap
"Does Your Mother Know?" - Abba
"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" - Urge Overkill
"Hello, Little Girl" - Stephen Sondheim (from Into the Woods)