Is from page 117, where HH refers to Lolita as "my vulgar darling."
Discuss.
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Thanks to the "online Lolita", I am able to provide here some excerpts, both narrative and dialogue, of the "vulgar darling" in her glory (btw these come up to about where you are in the book, which is coincidentally about where I am too):
/And neither is she the fragile child of a feminine novel. What drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet--of every nymphet,perhaps; this mixture in my Lolita of tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity, stemming from the snub-nosed cuteness of ads and magazine pictures, from the blurry pinkness of adolescent maidservants in the Old Country (smelling of crushed daisies and sweat); and from very young harlots disguised as children in provincial brothels;
/the Lolita of the strident voice and rich brown hair--of the bangs and the swirls and the sides and the curls at the back, and the sticky hot neck, and the vulgar vocabulary--"revolting," "super," "luscious," "goon," "drip"
/In the hot car she settled down beside me, slapped a prompt fly on her lovely knee; then, her mouth working violently on a piece of chewing gum
/"You know, I missed you terribly, Lo." "I did not. Fact I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you, but it does not matter one bit, because you've stopped caring for me, anyway. You drive much faster than my mummy, mister." I slowed down from a blind seventy to a purblind fifty. "Why do you think I have ceased caring for you, Lo?" "Well, you haven't kissed me yet, have you?"
/"...That was another police car. I am thrifty and I am absolutely filthy in thought, word and deed."
/"Don't do that," she said looking at me with unfeigned surprise. "Don't drool on me. You dirty man."
/"...Two people sharing one room, inevitably enter into a kind--how shall I say--a kind--" "The word is incest," said Lo--and walked into the closet, walked out again with a young golden giggle..
Just a late night idea I had one night:
To blog about what book I was currently reading, then, sit at a coffee shop and see who else out there wanted to talk about the same book.
Becuase you can't be strangers if you have shared stories.
2 comments:
Thanks to the "online Lolita", I am able to provide here some excerpts, both narrative and dialogue, of the "vulgar darling" in her glory (btw these come up to about where you are in the book, which is coincidentally about where I am too):
/And neither is she the fragile child of a feminine novel. What
drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet--of every nymphet,perhaps; this mixture in my Lolita of tender dreamy childishness and a kind
of eerie vulgarity, stemming from the snub-nosed cuteness of ads and magazine pictures, from the blurry pinkness of adolescent maidservants in
the Old Country (smelling of crushed daisies and sweat); and from very young harlots disguised as children in provincial brothels;
/the Lolita of the strident
voice and rich brown hair--of the bangs and the swirls and the sides and the curls at the back, and the sticky hot neck, and the vulgar vocabulary--"revolting," "super," "luscious," "goon," "drip"
/In the hot car
she settled down beside me, slapped a prompt fly on her lovely knee; then, her mouth working violently on a piece of chewing gum
/"You know, I missed you terribly, Lo."
"I did not. Fact I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you, but it does not matter one bit, because you've stopped caring for me, anyway. You drive much faster than my mummy, mister."
I slowed down from a blind seventy to a purblind fifty.
"Why do you think I have ceased caring for you, Lo?"
"Well, you haven't kissed me yet, have you?"
/"...That was another police car. I am thrifty and I am absolutely filthy in thought,
word and deed."
/"Don't do that," she said looking at me with unfeigned surprise.
"Don't drool on me. You dirty man."
/"...Two people sharing one room, inevitably enter into a kind--how shall I say--a kind--"
"The word is incest," said Lo--and walked into the closet, walked out again with a young golden giggle..
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