

i have given some more thought on the beauty +pity = art
and i think a lot of it is that all of Nabokovs characters are full of beauty in their own right and many of the characters one feels pity for, or at least has a pitiful way about them. in the words that humbert writes while speaking of Lolita and the way that Kinbote finds so much beauty in his native country of Zembla there is beauty through out all of nabokovs words and writing.