It may have been somewhat softened by the flowery, implicit language Nabokov used to describe it, but Page 174 nonetheless contained such a repulsive revelation on Humbert’s part of his imagined future intentions (“Lolita the Second”… “Lolita the Third”), that I just had to put the book down for a minute, and stare off speechlessly into the middle distance in abject disgust and horror. JESUS CHRIST…
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