Mason's Nymphets

[cathy ramirez]

--- cathy ramirez <cathyramirez69 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Doug Millison <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Mason suffers from every cause and symptom of
> > > Melancholy Burton details
> > 
> > 
> > Really?  Every cause and symptom in that massive
> > book?
> > I'd be surprised if even Pynchon has been that
> > exhaustive.  (Which is, by the way, well worth
> > reading
> > in the recent NYRB edition.)


There is one symptom that Burton doesn't go into that 
I can't quite figure out: Mason's attraction to 
nymphets. 

"You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of
infinite melancholy, with bubble of hot poison in your
loins and a super-voluptuous flame permenantly aglow
in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and
hide!), in order to dicern at once...the little deadly
demon..."

Nabokov, Lolita





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