preambulate

(priːˈæmbjʊˌleɪt)

1. (intr) literary to make a preamble, to give an introduction

2. (tr) archaic to walk in front or ahead of, to precede

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It varies from a clumsy formality ("the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates"; "this commentator may be excused for repeating" [3, 5]) to a straightforward effectiveness ("he is horrible, he is abject" [5]), to the repetition of platitudes: "'Lolita' should make all of us--parents, social workers, educators--apply ourselves with still greater vigilance and vision to the task of bringing up a better generation in a safer world" (6).

Estranging unreliability, bonding unreliability, and the ethics of Lolita

Lolita begins as such a story, as John Ray "preambulates" a manuscript written by Humbert, who himself relates events with the shaping power of hindsight.

Lolita's Loose Ends: Nabokov and the Boundless Novel

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