Lolita Bracelet


 Aloda begins with the line, “If I’ve lost my mind, so be it,” referencing the opening line of Saul Bellow’s novel Moses Herzog: “If I’ve lost my mind, so be it,” and continues with an adaptation of the opening line of Nabakov’s Lolita, and ends not with the first line of Nabakov’s famous poem in Pale Fire, but with a modified second version of the first line. Why does it end with the second version instead of the first? Because that is the reason Aloda was written: “I was the shadow of a dying butterfly; appearing in the false distance of the windowpane.”


 Novel Dedicated To : Aloda - Altar Kaplan