IO SONO SIMONE

anyusername

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portuguese

Jul 13, 2012

#1

<< An excerpt from "Lolita">>

 

I'm <going to> write the entire paragraph here, but I am only confused by part of it, which I will put in bold letters.

 

"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges." - Vladimir Nabokov

 

Would anyone be so kind as to describe in a more simple manner what the author is trying to say here? I've tried researching the definitions of the words involved but it did not help much. I'm having trouble picturing what is going on.

 

Thank you