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  • Word coined in Lolita for the uniquely American brand of fate. Characterized by a certain amount of randomness.

    June 2, 2008

  • In Nabokov's novel Lolita?! Wasn't that written in the 1950s, before the whole McDonald's phenomenon became a metaphor for American phoniness/shallowness?

    June 2, 2008

  • Interesting, internet doesn't seem to have much to say on this, but obviously this isn't referring to McDonald's.

    June 3, 2008