In a message dated 09/09/2009 22:19:18 GMT Daylight Time, jansy@AETERN.US writes:
JM: Flabby, helpless old man? I always thought Humbert was in his forties.
Humbert was 36 or 37 when he met the 12-year-old Lolita. He is not even the "middle-aged" man he is usually said, by careless readers, to be. Their ages are almost the same as those of Herr K. and Dora in Freud's case study.
 
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