Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita and Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood?

Died July 2nd?

Born July 2nd?

Released July 26th?

Born July 26th and Died March 7th?

Released March 7th?

I was listening to the latest 'Mysterious Universe' podcast where the guys were talking about a strange dream that Vladimir Nabokov the author of the novel 'Lolita' had, where his uncle comes to him in a dream and tells Vlad that two clowns would restore his lost fortune to him years later.
The boys at the MU podcast say that those two clowns sounded a lot like Kubrick and Harris who paid Nabokov a heap of money for the rights to 'Lolita' and for Nabokov to help write the screenplay for the movie.

I wrote about that podcast in this recent post -
Retrocausal Destiny or Living a Lumnoius Life?

I was listening again to that podcast last night while I was writing my post about Charlie Chaplin -

Charlie Chaplin Had Blue Eyes, Too?

When I heard the guys talking about Vladimir Nabokov's dream and Kubrick making 'Lolita' from Nabokov's book, I looked up Vladimir Nabokov's details and was stunned to see that Nabokov died in Switzerland the same year that Chaplin did, and then dates started tumbling out at me from the subjects I was working on, linking clowns, Hollywood, Kubrick and Nabokov together in a bizarre synchromystic way.

For instance (humour me here:-) Nabokov died on July 2nd, which just happens to be Margot Robbie's birthday.

Robbie plays Harley-Quinn, the Joker's girlfriend, although not in the 'Joker' movie, up against her 'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' where Robbie plays Sharon Tate.

'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' just happened to be released on July 26th, which just happens to be Stanley Kubrick's and Carl Jung's birthdays.

Chaplin's movie 'The Great Dictator' was released on March 7th, which is the date Kubrick would die on in 1999, just before 'Eyes Wide Shut' would be released, starring Nicole Kidman, who was born on June 20th.

Kubrick had originally wanted Errol Flynn, who had a birthday on June 20th like Kidman, to play the part in 'Lolita', but Flynn died in 1959 before 'Lolita' could start filming.

Kubrick ended up settling for James Mason to play the lead in 'Lolita' and Mason would die of a heart attack in Switzerland (the country Nabokov and Chaplin died in) in 1984 (the Year of the Rat).

Charlie Chaplin wrote the music to the song that would become 'Smile', a song used for the 'Joker' soundtrack.

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And to top all those weird things off, Sue Lyon who played 'Lolita' in Kubrick's movie, died in 2019, the day after Christmas.

""Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and first published, May 15, 1948 in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen (1958: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York).

In The New Yorker, the story was published under the title
"Symbols and Signs", a decision by the editor Katharine White.

Nabokov returned the title to his original "Signs and Symbols" when republishing the story.

The plot is about an elderly couple who try to visit their deranged son in a sanatorium on his birthday. 

They are informed that he attempted to take his life and they cannot see him now.

After their return home, the husband announces his decision to take him out of the sanatorium. The story concludes with mysterious telephone calls.

The first two apparently misdialed calls are from a girl asking for "Charlie"; the story ends when the phone rings for the third time."
Charlie Don't Surf?!

May 15th is James Mason's birthday, by the way:-)

Katherine White the New Yorker editor who published Nabokov's short story "Symbols and Signs" passed away in 1977, the same year Nabokov and Chaplin did, and on July 20th, which was the anniversary of man's walk on the moon  ... or so they say;-)