I have always taken that to be the author’s intent. J.K., on the other hand, read a love story. I do agree with everything else she said about Nabakov though.
I have always taken that to be the author’s intent. J.K., on the other hand, read a love story. I do agree with everything else she said about Nabakov though.
Lolita is a masterpiece in the true sense of the word. I just do not understand how J.K. see Lolita as a love story.
Yes, the ending of Lolita is amazing but even in it I could feel the “wrongness” of the narrator. Maybe it’s me but you guys tell me if this doesn’t read more like horror than romance.
The following decision I make with all the legal impact and support of a signed testament: I wish this memoir to be published only when Lolita is no longer alive.
Thus, neither of us is alive when the reader opens this book. But while the blood still throbs through my writing hand, you are still as much part of blessed matter as I am, and I can still talk to you from here to Alaska. Be true to your Dick. Do not let other fellows touch you. Do not talk to strangers. I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come at him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. And do not pity C. Q. One had to choose between him and H.H., and one wanted H.H. to exist at least a couple of months longer, so as to have him make you live in the minds of later generations. I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
…the French, in principle, rarely distinguish between fact and impression.
The author comes out swinging and still manages to bore quickly.
Smells just like the Brexit gamble.
The movie was 27 years ago.
Bro, what did Millenials ever do to you to deserve such violence?
Dear lord, no. That is not at all true. I am 51 and when I was a kid, the wreck of the Titanic hadn’t been found yet. People were still fascinated. I remeber watching a movie called Raise The Titanic, which in turn was based on a best selling book. Why do you think James Cameron was obsessed with the Titanic?
Why do they keep messing with Taylor Swift? 😭
If you already know you have to retake the course during summer school, what’s the point in sweating the final?
Look at you Mr. Fancy Pants using Windows.
I am not trying to flex but I have a Sprinter van and camper trailer with a Starlink mount that my wife and I use to “go off-grid” in Wyoming and Montana (Yellowstone, Grand Teton, etc, area). It doesn’t suck. If you can make just enough to maintain a lifestyle that keeps you in nature, I highly recommend it.
PS: A lot of people (young and old) in my area of Wyoming do that. They work the high tourist seasons and odd jibs in the low season, then spend the rest of their time out in nature.
Genocide is bad.
Oppression is bad.
Racism is bad.
Those don’t seem like difficult concepts to grasp.
I sweat the mushrooms in the microwave before I sauté. They release a ton of water, which I use on another dish’s preparation (rice, pasta, kale, etc).
Were the scientists all named Rick Sanchez by any chance?