/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6195622]

Post your favorite quotes from Nabokov's Lolita.

>I said "post book quotes," not "post barely legals." Keep it classy this isn't /b/

[Anonymous No.6195626]

> duet with teenage daughter
> "Lemon Incest"

kek

[Anonymous No.6195630]

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”

[Anonymous No.6195636]

“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.”

[Lana is The Uberhipster No.6195643]

>>6195636
I love that Lana Del Rey is very well-read and incorporates themes from the lit she reads in her music, like Ginsberg's Howl, Whitman, Nabokov, etc.

[Anonymous No.6195653]

“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”

[Anonymous No.6195656]

“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.”

[Anonymous No.6195665]

>>6195622
>>6195656
Incest pics are creepy.

[Anonymous No.6195674]

>>6195636

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[Anonymous No.6195718]

“She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.”

[Anonymous No.6195730]

Here are two of King Akhnaten’s and Queen Nefertiti’s pre-nubile Nile daughters (that royal couple had a litter of six), wearing nothing but many necklaces of bright beads, relaxed on cushions, intact after three thousand years, with their soft brown puppybodies, cropped hair and long ebony eyes.

[H.Q.S.S.G No.6195753]

>>6195630
>Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Gives me tingles every time I read it.

>the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
I remember reading this phrase in particular so many years ago and being absolutely enamored by Nabokov's prose.


Also, unrelated but Lana Del Rey looks like a muppet.

[Anonymous No.6195912]

>>6195753
>Lana Del Rey looks like a muppet.

Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.

Lana Del Rey is a goddess.

Also, if anyone looks like a muppet its that uncut cock hungry whore Laci Green.

[Anonymous No.6195916]

>>6195753
Lana aside I share your observations of those particular excerpts.

[Anonymous No.6195931]

Charlotte Gainsbourg at 15 was the real Dolores Haze.

[Anonymous No.6195934]

>>6195931
15 is the AOC in France. That's how her father got away with that film he cast her and himself in.

[Anonymous No.6195935]

I haven't read it because I always see these cringe-tier quotes that read like a neckbeard's diary to his anime waifu and get dissuaded.

[Anonymous No.6195943]

>>6195935
>dissuaded

Wow, such verbose, much smarts. You're light-years beyond Nabokov bro.

Keep tippin'.

[Anonymous No.6195951]

>>6195943
Hey man, I was just saying why I haven't read it. Just because I disagree with you doesn't make me wear a fedora, you know, there are other opinions in the world.

[Anonymous No.6195956]

>>6195951
gb2 reddit fagit, opinions aren't allowed here.

[Anonymous No.6195966]

>>6195956

[Anonymous No.6195968]

"Mfw Lolita was the qtest 3.14 and then her mom died."

[Anonymous No.6195975]

>>6195951
If these quotes are cringe-tier to you, I actually pity you. I'd hope that some day you're able to move past whatever stigma you've mentally attached to whatever part of this writing that's triggering it because otherwise you're missing out on some truly beautiful writing.
Seems a bit childish to avoid it because of some presumed notion of "neckbeard diary anime waifu" honestly.

[Anonymous No.6195986]

>>6195656
>tfw you will never be serge's son and charlotte's brother

[Anonymous No.6195997]

Why isn't Charlotte Forever available for purchase or on torrents? Dammit.

[Anonymous No.6196002]

>>6195943
You're a pleb if you think 'dissuade' is a big word.

[Anonymous No.6196008]

>>6196002
It's not, but it isn't really used in everyday vernacular anymore, especially not by plebs that think Nabokov was a "neckbeard."

[Anonymous No.6196009]

>>6195997
It's on YouTube.

[Anonymous No.6196031]

>>6195997
She's topless in the film. At the time she was legal in France and most of Europe but not the U.S. Unsure about the legal implications.

[ΟΥΤΙΣ No.6196062]

>>6196031
The film version of Romeo and Juliet has a topless fifteen-year-old Juliet (which the film had to get special permission for from the Italian government) getting out of bed after having sex with Romeo. It's available in many video rentals.

[Anonymous No.6196891]

>>6196062
and it was shown in schools too. I think you can get away with it because the nudity isn't overtly sexual.