Men Explain Lolita To Me

[Joseph Tracy]

Maybe you are just jealous of a clever, funny, insightful and provocatively fun writer who is widely published and read despite her contrarian pov.
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 7:46 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Great Googly Moogly but Solnit is an insufferable, sanctimonious, hyper-inflated-with-a-sense-of-self-importance piece of work.
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> She's single-handedly ruining Harper's for me, and a few others I'd wager.
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> J
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> 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.
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> HH "gets what he deserves" -- you sound like John Ray, Jr., PhD.
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> Ray
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> On December 17, 2015 5:35:40 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> yeah, Nabokov greatly dissed 'morality' in fiction all his non-fic life...
> but he did believe in themes and human goodness and badness..
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> some take Nabokov's constant dissing of 'morality' as part-act (against
> lousy, sentimental poshlost fiction) and part unreliable narrator...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Ray
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> On December 17, 2015 4:40:02 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
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> we have to identify with Lolita because common human morality....to
> read it right....
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