Sic transit...

I loaned a friend my copy of "Reading Lolita in Tehran".  When returning it, she related the following shocking amusing story.

My friend was reading the book during a break at work.  Another colleague approached her: "What is Lolita?".  Surprised, my friend proceeded to explain that it was a title of a rather famous book by Nabokov.  The colleague nodded, absorbed, and asked, "And what is Tehran?".

Both my friend and her colleague are violinists in our world-famous symphony orchestra.