Catching up with 'Lolita' — 50 years later

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That Lolita was a 'wilfull temptation' is just wilfully distortive and almost evil. She is 12 years old!!

1.  Lolita is a fictional character

2.  Do you know any 12 years olds?  Were you perhaps 12 yourself at
some point?

I'm not saying that the text itself (regardless of Nabokov's
intentions, whatver they might have been, and with whatever success he
might have inscribed them in his novel) supports such a reading, but
an appeal to "reality" is misguided, for at least two reasons, is all
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