Care to expand on that idea? What was the comparison between the two?
Humbert is a European intellectual who is used to rigid lines between high culture and mass culture along with a strong sense of aesthetic tradition and heritage. That was the Angleo-European Modernist ethos - in the U.S. he comes across a pop culture saturated landscape that doesn’t seem to distinguish between anything. Great poetry is in the same bag with camps named after Disney characters and celebrity magazines. He’s completely fascinated by this along with the human embodiment of it all...a completely ordinary 12 year old girl.