NPPF - preliminary

[David Morris]

--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> Despite the linkage, I have trouble with Hazel as nymphet -- if anything
she's more anti-nymphet, inspiring opposite reactions to those around her; it's
her sense of extreme rejection that pushes her to the ice and not the extreme
acceptance of a Humbert.

Here's another question re. Hazel:  Isn't the reason for her suicide a bit
shallow?  Do we really want to buy into "not pretty" as a tragedy?  Nabokov
could have come up with any number of tragic circumstances for her torment
besides this.
 
> Also, I can't say I agree that Lolita leads Humbert astray.  That puts a
whole lot on the shoulders of an innocent little girl

Sure, but it's slightly implied in the text if I remember.  Also it fits the
classic response of the pedophile after he's caught: " She/He wanted it."

Didn't that little girl on the Anubis want it?

David Morris


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