CoL49(6): Humbert Humbert Cats

[Mark Kohut]

A---and as TRP recognizes about Flange in that story, this is usually the sign of a certain psychological immaturity (at least), in the male.
With Humbert H., Nabokov is clear: it is pedophilia. (Even though young Lo was not a virgin)

Have just read Martin Gardner on Lewis Carroll's 'love' for young women (In the Alice book annotations). He will accept
that it seems  a Victorian pre-sexual 'idealization" in him.......Although Nabokov, professed hater of 'the Viennese witch doctor' and his foolishnesses, spoke of Carroll's monstrous predicilictions, or some such.

But, with LC, never pedophilia. 



----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2009 4:08:40 PM
Subject: Re: CoL49(6): Humbert Humbert Cats

Although there might be some attempted theme about the exploitation of children, in all likelihood, the fact that so many of his characters express lust for underage girls suggests that Pynchon himself is attracted to very young girls, as are the fictional Humbert, possibly Nabokov, Farina, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, etc., etc., including men in and out of the limelight and including men who act on their urges and those who don't.  In short, he's got company.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>

>What IS with all the nymphets/subdebs and/or Humbert Humbert cats?
>Here?  Elsewhere?  Help!  Thanks!
>