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>Hey Anon, whatcha reading?
>L-L-Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
>Oh, I haven't read that one. What's it about?
>__________

What do you say /lit/?

>> No.4440553

"It's about a grown man who marries a woman to get close to her 12 year old daughter. After the mother dies they go on a road trip across the country so he can have sex with her as much as he wants without people who know her getting suspicious."

>> No.4440557

I'd say it's about a pedophile. What are you guys only friends with paranoid finger-pointers or something?

>> No.4440564

>>4440557
It's about a hebephile, that's totally different that pedophilia. Having sex with 12 year olds is even legal in Vatican City.

>> No.4440568

>>4440564

Hebephilia is a subset of pedophilia

>> No.4440572

>>4440568
They're both subsets of chronophilia you illiterate swine.

>> No.4440575

>>4440564

He's a pedophile. He's attracted to prepubescent girls primarily and dislikes them when they begin to show secondary sexual characteristics such as flared hips and large breasts. (he even makes a point of noting that the average age of onset for puberty is 13, the age he defines as the limit of his attraction to "nymphets")

He's also a rapist and a murderer, so whether he's a pedophile or merely a hebe is the least of the worries here.

>> No.4440581

>>4440572
Yes but that is too broad to give an accurate description.

>> No.4440596
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4440596

greater than symbol

reading books for plot

>> No.4440637

Narcissism

>> No.4440851
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4440851

Of you feel shame when asked about reading Lolita in public, don't bother with this.

>> No.4440860

True love.

>> No.4440901

>>4440860

Hardly.

>> No.4440919

It's about a man trapped in a loveless marriage attempting desperately to feel the young again.

>> No.4440925

cheese pizza and heavy breathing

>> No.4440991

>>4440637
This.

Also self-delusion and exploitation.

You can take it as read that until he molds her to his fantasy, HH's talk of her sexually flirtatious teasing is all projection.