Currently re-reading Lolita and uncovered an interesting nugget.

FictionCurrently re-reading Lolita and uncovered an interesting nugget.

Posted January 27, 2022 by [Deleted] in Books

I wanted to re-read Nabokov's Lolita after peaking just to see if anything new stood out, and this one sure did:

Humbert actually fantasizes early on in the book (apologies, I can't find the specific passage) about dressing up as another girl in order to join Dolores Haze while she was at summer camp. He imagines that he would camp out in the woods near the camp in school girl gear, and the girls would "notice him" and welcome him into their camp or something. yeesh.

My jaw dropped reading that passage. It just shows that this shit is not new in the slightest and LARPing as a woman or girl has always been a part of a predator's playbook. Just thought it was interesting.

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MonstrousRegiment

February 6, 2022

Thanks! One of my beefs with my local library is the absence of her books. I became aware of her after watching the movie of Angel with the peerless Romola Garai.

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