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Re: VN/Dostoevsky--rape of Lolita (fwd)
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From: Diane Charney <diane.charney@yale.edu>
>From: Jason Mical <unasoda@hotmail.com>
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>>Humbert claims he did not take the girl against her will, but at her
>>invitation. Given her age, this is still a violation and a crime, but I was
>>calling his account of her willingness into question. It seems to me there
>>is no reason to take him at his word.
And what makes you think one can/should believe her? Or his account of her
so-called previous experience? The reliability of anyone's "testimony" in
this work is open to question, no? Maybe it's the alert Nabokov reader (the
one who doesn't read with his lips moving?) who is the only one NOT taken
against his/her will?
Just trying to be difficult! Welcome!--Diane Joy Charney
Yale University
>From: Jason Mical <unasoda@hotmail.com>
>
>>Humbert claims he did not take the girl against her will, but at her
>>invitation. Given her age, this is still a violation and a crime, but I was
>>calling his account of her willingness into question. It seems to me there
>>is no reason to take him at his word.
And what makes you think one can/should believe her? Or his account of her
so-called previous experience? The reliability of anyone's "testimony" in
this work is open to question, no? Maybe it's the alert Nabokov reader (the
one who doesn't read with his lips moving?) who is the only one NOT taken
against his/her will?
Just trying to be difficult! Welcome!--Diane Joy Charney
Yale University