Men Explain Lolita To Me

[Mark Thibodeau]

Great Googly Moogly but Solnit is an insufferable, sanctimonious,
hyper-inflated-with-a-sense-of-self-importance piece of work.

She's single-handedly ruining Harper's for me, and a few others I'd wager.

J

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Ray Easton <raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When I say 'Nabakov does not care a fig...' I am not referring to what the
> man in his "non-fic life" did or did not believe.  (I don't care about such
> things.)  I mean that his novels have no moral viewpoint and present no
> moral lessons.
>
> HH "gets what he deserves" -- you sound like John Ray, Jr., PhD.
>
> Ray
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> On December 17, 2015 5:35:40 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> yeah, Nabokov greatly dissed 'morality' in fiction all his non-fic life...
>> but he did believe in themes and human goodness and badness..
>>
>> some take Nabokov's constant dissing of 'morality' as part-act (against
>> lousy, sentimental poshlost fiction) and part unreliable narrator...
>>
>> Anyway, he recognized love and death and themes related to and life
>> and sense perceptions and
>> so much more in his own
>> and in others' fictions.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Ray Easton
>> <raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Morality -- Nabakov does not care a fig about morality.  And  the novel
>>> is
>>> designed to force us to identity not with Lokita, but with HH.
>>>
>>> Ray
>>>
>>>
>>> On December 17, 2015 4:40:02 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> we have to identify with Lolita because common human morality....to
>>>> read it right....
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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