VV(18): The young girl ...

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 14 19:55:39 CDT 2001


Oh, and "one Doucette, thirteen and struggled within
by passions she could not name" (p. 402).  "Doucette"
= "little whore," a la "Irma La Douce"?  And cf.
Lolita, vis a vis Delores Haze.  Okay ...

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > "Afterward Gerfaut the writer sat by a window,
> > discoursing on how for some reason the young
> > girl--adolescent or younger--had again become the
> > mode in erotic fiction." (V., Ch. 14, Sec. i,
> > p. 402)

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