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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
anyone who says that Lolita was "a gruesome celebration of pedophile rape" has the reading comprehension skills of a dull third-grader.

If this is accurate, and I personally think it is, then I should have been a literary critic. I, accurately, I think, suggest that Nabakov describes how devastating the relationship became to both subjects, and also very clearly indicates that it was not rape, but passion, that lead to the mutual sexual attraction. I've held this view since I read "Lolita" while in college.

18 posted on 02/22/2017 8:38:52 AM PST by Ace's Dad (BTW, "Ace" is now Captain Ace. But only when I'm bragging!)
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To: Ace's Dad

It wasn’t mutual. He imagines and projects all sorts of emotions and motivations on what’s supposed to be a completely ordinary 12 year old.


19 posted on 02/22/2017 8:41:51 AM PST by Borges
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To: Ace's Dad

My interpretation is he was pinning or lusting, which is sick in itself, but never followed through.


24 posted on 02/22/2017 9:07:34 AM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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