While Googling the “final lines of Lolita”,

October 9, 2007

I came across a thread on a Harry Potter message board, dated prior to the release of the final book in the Harry Potter series, regarding author J.K. Rowlings statement that Lolita was one of the two books whose “last lines make me cry without fail.”

This admission sets off a wave of anticipatory fear regarding the end of the Potter series. I have not read the final Harry Potter book, and it seems the majority of the posters had not read Lolita. The thread, posted below, contains no spoilers that I know of, and keeping in suit I will refrain from posting the final paragraph of Lolita
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Olafur Eliasson: Mediated Motion (2001)

October 9, 2007

Paul Muldoon - “One Last Draw of the Pipe”

October 8, 2007

Heard a piece of Roscommon folklore the other night. At some village or
other, they lay pipes full of tobacco on the graves of the new buried
in case they may like a draw of the pipe. A wild American indian kind
of buisness [sic] it seems.
–A letter from W. B. Yeats to Douglas Hyde, October 1889

Even though it happened as long ago as the late fifties, I could still draw
you a picture of the place. A little draw

through which we were helping a neighbor draw
green hay when we would suddenly draw

level with a freshly dug hole. He must have been torn between one last
draw

of the pipe and hurriedly trying to draw

a veil of thatch and pine boughs over the hole before having to withdraw,
that ghost who may even now draw

a bead on me. On the day Sitting Bull was shot, his old trick pony (once
such a draw

in Buffalo Bill’s circus because he was given to dance

attendance
when he heard a volley of shots) would automatically draw

himself up and raise one hoof.
Even now I hear it coming down. I hear it coming down on my yew-bough
roof.