GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Theodore Stohner]

Paul Mackin: <snip >the idea that the classic child molester
>would be likely to try to justify his action (to himself that is) on the
>grounds that the child WANTS IT? <snip>

David Morris <snip> 

Just check out NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association)(I think).  
That's their bottom line: the boys want it; let the young free to pursue 
love w/ a man.

Also, read Lolita.  A very sexy, disturbing read.>>>


Yeah, interesting.  Did Lolita "want it"?  There's much in these discussions of whether Enzian or Bianca want it that reminds me of Lolita.  Lolita is written from Humbert's point of view.  Humbert would have the reader believe that Lolita seduced him (the first time); later Lolita - when allowed to speak, as reported by Humbert - refers to the same incident as being when Humbert raped her.  Weissmann says "the boy wants to fuck.".  One has to question the reliability of the narrator - certainly in Lolita, where Humbert consistently presents a Lolita stripped of certain aspects of her humanity, and in GR where the lines between the novel's reality and fantasy are blurred, contradictions inhere, and what might early in the book be taken for fact is later revealed to have been fiction or the relevant narrator's misinterpretation of events - and the narrator's motivations in believing and in having the reader believe his version of events.


Theo
London