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Date: 12.12.24-19.12.24

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12.12.24

• Lolita not women like he literally talk about 9 and 10 year old which has adult attributes
• Nymphets* it means even more young
• girl child*
• avantgarde taboo
• Nabokov and Borges (both parodist) ignorant mockery of Freud
• One grand prose poem
• Lolita banned in France
• Also wrote pnin and pale fire
• Nabokov likes coded texts
• Edgar Allan Poe references
• T.S. Elliot references
• a lot of romanticism
• Minimize and maximize?
• Humbert humbert giving the age of the Lolita when 14 its too old
• he stuck in his perverted mind even though Lolita getting older
• Literature dealing with morality but even if we dont want didactism because it loses its literary value. So we need shock value.
• How to fix this problem?
• Sickening perverted version of writing and describing the sickness.
• Images may not be inherently funny.
• afterword of Nabakov
• insanity suggest that makes you have no judgement
• perversity can be extremely well adjusted to the family life. its more underneath
• Foreword and afterword
• The perversity comes from somewhere H.H is a French person
• Such evil is transported from outside to U.S. the perversity comes from other continent as always
• Motherless H.H
• Motherlessness in the novels As I lay Dying and Lolita
• Elsewhere idea, it comes from elsewhere

19.12324

• Quilty playwright also pedo- slept with Lolita.
• Vivian Darkbloom- Nabakov himself
• 342 Lawn Street also the hotel number where sex happened
• Lolita got sick and hospitalized but she gets better Humbert gets worse
• Quilty and Lolita run away together?
• She was legally left to Humbert’s care as a step daughter
• If you don't have me you will go to foster care
• The way he changes his mind as he sees Lolita
• The mother of Lolita dies and Humbert feels it’s Jackpot
• Secrecy secret between you and me
• Mother issue of Humbert and Lolita’s *
• The way he talks about Lolita is like she deserved it she needs him
• How do we think about Lolita and How do we think about society and how do we think about ourselves?
• Does finding out about Lolita changes your mind as she had sex at 11?
• Nabakov makes us complicit in the story* we are participating in the story
• Reader Oriented, and reader oriented writing. Frigid women and the dear reader
• Flowers of Evil both evil and suffering or pain sado mazo da olurmuş
• He tries to justify himself as In Rome people married at 11, Dante Beatrice. etc
• Age of Consent 15-16 zaten diyor Humbert
• Consent olsa da rape gibi, yaş farkı legal olmayan bir consent yapısı
• He thinks that she also hit on me she wanted that etc (justification)
• Metin bizi suç ortağı yapmaya çalışıyor, metnin güzelliğinden haz bulursak suç ortağı oluyoruz. Ve fırsatın olsa sen de yapardın diyor etc ve metin bunu yüzümüze vuruyor. Okuyucunun ve toplumun iki yüzlülüğü çocukların sığınacak yeri olmaması
• Class matter pedophilia
• Knowing the world, the children gets freedom so people can do whatever (justification)
• Camp: Supervisors get involved with children. Humbert may be stupid for the psychologists he close eyes for it
• Pool side suburban all the people hang out
• Kızınızda meraksızlık var falan diyorlar psikologlar müdür vs 15 yaşındakiler flört ediyorken Lolita kimseyle etmiyor bu biraz sıkıntılı gözüküyor fln Suspicion
• Intimidation techniques
• In the end of novel Quilty says I know all the things about people and pedophilia etc
• Child could do all the things but they are still a child. Childhood is special and no trauma should happen to them. They should not be lied to . But children not that angelic.
• Freudian children explanation. Children feel sensation. The mother and father role. Children and Sexuality biological
• Humbert not Lolita’s first and Lolita also hit on him etc etc
• Amerika aslında temizdi de Humbert mı getirdi? (YOK). American Novel so x-raying american way of Hypocrisy
• Adolescent talks and rations like an adult but cry and feels like a 5 year old
• Chapter 28 and 31
• Gentle women of the Jury bear with me
• Please Reader do not skip the pages etc
• Corrupted but not know it
• Pedofililerden pedofili beğen
• He feels tender he feels that this should not be a crime, artistic personalty not crime
• She who seduce me
• Useful idiots as readers
• This text is artistic not pornographic because this is not mechanical etc
• Elements of animality
• 32. Chapter and 33

Nothing could have been more childish than her snubbed nose, freckled face or the purplish spot on her naked neck where a fairy-tale vampire had feasted, or the unconscious movement of her tongue exploring a touch of rosy rash around her swollen lips; nothing could be more harmless than to read about Jill, an energetic starlet who made her own clothes and was a student of serious literature; nothing could be more innocent than the part in that glossy brown hair with that silky sheen on the temple; nothing could be more naive — But what sickening envy the lecherous fellow whoever he was — come to think of it, he resembled a little my Swiss uncle Gustave, also a great admirer of le découvert — would have experienced had he known that every nerve in me was still anointed and ringed with the feel of her body — the body of some immortal demon disguised as a female child.

• More and more uncomfortable Humble feel

At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.

• Pages: 106, 111, 130
• Dorothy Humbird (Dirty humbert) Dr. Humburg, Humberson, Hummer
• Lolita playing tennis? she looks like a top notch tennis player if she had good parents she would be better for anything Lolita for herself she is not trying to make Humbert jealous or anything she just play and play good
• Nabakov makes fun of T.S Elliot
• annabelin ölümü annenin ölümü ? his

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