cumaeansibyl:pluckypalaeontologist:sharpestrose:kirschke:inconsistent font choices: the powerpointlo
cumaeansibyl:pluckypalaeontologist:sharpestrose:kirschke:inconsistent font choices: the powerpointlong story short,in the event that you do read “lolita”read the forewordand the afterwordconsider context and intentget the annotated version if u wantand pay attention to the text.There’s an episode in the first or second season of SVU where Dolores murders HH’s creepy ass. Yes good. Also read the foreword because it’s where the resolution of the plot actually punches you in the gut. i don’t tend to read forewords because i don’t want to start a book with someone else’s feelings about a book, but i guess i’ll do that o_omind you i’m not 100% confident i actually FINISHED lolita? like the last thing i remember is her being pregnant and humbert being all “she looks too grown up my boner is wilting :(“i have genuinely used people’s feelings about lolita as a barometer for whether i want to have anything to do with them like:DO YOU THINK HUMBERT HUMBERT IS A CREEPY PEDO RAPIST AND THAT WHAT HE DID WAS UNJUSTIFIED AND UNJUSTIFIABLE? PLEASE SELECT FROM THE FOLLOWING:YESFUCK YESI AM NOT WELCOME IN YOUR HOUSE SO I’M GOING TO AWKWARDLY LEAVE NOWthe foreword was actually written by nabokov as a commentary on the text as a genuine memoir, because he’s just great like thathere are a few things that nabokov put in to let us know that what humbert humbert did was not okay (spoilers obv):dolores cries herself to sleep every night — every single nightshe never ever ever responds the way HH wants her to — she endures what he does to her but gets no enjoyment whatsoevershe refers to what he does as rape and perversionhumbert acknowledges himself that she stays with him because she has nowhere else to gohumbert doesn’t know this because he’s writing in prison, but in the foreword we learn that dolores dies at age 19 giving birth to a stillborn baby girl, which is clearly meant to be a result of years of abuse (maybe not literally but this is the sort of on-the-nose thing even great authors will do to drive home a point WHICH APPARENTLY PEOPLE STILL MISS)this is not fucking romantic in any way shape or form and anyone who thinks it is needs serious help because holy shit -- source link
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