The Old Man of the Sea is briefly mentioned by Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita in the scene where Humbert Humbert as a child is attempting coitus with his first love, Annabel.
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The term Proteus signifies changeability of form, as personified in the Homeric poems in Proteus, "the old man of the sea," who tends the sealflocks of Poseidon and has the gift of endless transformation.