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"Like I'm starving and slowly killing myself for what? To be oh so Lolita coquette Lana Del Rey Cassie from skins 90s heroin chic butterfly model babe? The fuck is that?"
"Gallery art curator who tried to tell me 'Lolita' was 'just a different time' and how young girls look way older sometimes and just because I feel like it's wrong doesn't mean it is?????? (he was literally 27) and basically turned every single thing I said into a debate."
"People on twitter say guys always misunderstand it, but I've never met a single man who considers it a romance or idolises Humbert."
"They always go on about how the point of the book is that child abuse is bad. Even though nabakov explicitly said there is no moral to this story. Because do you seriously need a book to tell you that kidnapping and abusing a child is bad?? They always go on about how the book is really just a horro"
"I was numbly scrolling my instagram explore when I saw some stupid 'fashion' bitch with no swag rant about Lolita and how 'damaging and toxic' the novel is. In the comments I saw several people with anime pfp claim that the book helps them 'cope' because they are 'accused of being pedophiles due to "
"I'm rereading Lolita now at 25 years old and just thinking about how as a teen (13-16) I was so influenced by Tumblr/Lana Del Rey "nymphet" culture, after reading the book and completely missing the point- no understanding of the unreliable narrator perspective, the obvious (genius + intentional) ma"
"I was feeling kind of bad this afternoon because of a potential romantic situation that I don't think is gonna go my way. I had taken out Lolita from the library and finished it so I drove over to the library to return it."
"I've also noticed that with those tumblr lolita women it's not about the older man, it's about her and how much power of seduction she has over him. Like the older dude is just there to oooh and aaaah at how pretty she is."
"It's great, much funnier than I expected. Shit book for the pediatrician's waiting room, though. Thankfully my edition kinda looks like the Quran or a bible, anyway, the check up went great, my kid is very healthy and brave."
"I mean clearly the director was a pedophile right? Why is she wearing a choker and falling in love with a 40 year old?? Im surprised this movie is mainstream lmao this is worse than Lolita"
"2 - Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita"
"i remembered this tweet after seeing the thread from yesterday where katy was compared to lana and her lyrical reference to lolita was brought up. katy was actually really obsessed with lolita for a while and referenced it a few times, but i think she got some backlash and stopped"
"On this particular day I was reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. As I was reading a particular passage (you'll know what I mean if you've read it), I was suddenly hit by an intense dread that somebody behind me would look at what I was reading, without the context of the novel, and come to the concl"
"but it seems that he truly invented something with *Lolita* -- not just the story itself, but an entire aesthetic and attitude that has since taken on so many forms. the book came out in 1955, and i'm truly not sure if our cultural stock image of 'badly behaved babydoll' existed before that? "lolita"
"So, after a pause, an uncomfortably long pause between texts she starts questioning me about Nabakov --- specifically Lolita. And look, Im not an autistic, Im a people pleaser at heart, I mentioned Pnin and Pale Fire etc etc, I mentioned his beautiful prose, I talk about how his synesthetic prose in"
"Why are they reading books like "Lolita" or Anais, if that kind of subject matter bothers them? Like it just really annoys me looking up certain films/books for interesting analyses... only to see people whining about the same old shit, when it's obviously going to be controversial/problematic. Ever"
"It's great, much funnier than I expected. Shit book for the pediatrician's waiting room, though."
"On this particular day I was reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. As I was reading a particular passage (you'll know what I mean if you've read it), I was suddenly hit by an intense dread that somebody behind me would look at what I was reading, without the context of the novel, and come to the concl"
"but it seems that he truly invented something with *Lolita* -- not just the story itself, but an entire aesthetic and attitude that has since taken on so many forms. the book came out in 1955"
"Her zoomer mind had associated Nabakov with pederaats qua Lolita."
"Why are they reading books like "Lolita" or Anais, if that kind of subject matter bothers them?"
"Everyone knows what "Lolita" is about at this point."
"I wanted to build up to lolita, so i thought id start with this, only 100 pages… Wow, was i caught of guard Nabokov is quite recondite, lol"