Lolita Essay - Day II

[changeling67]

Lollipops - the signifier of childhood.  Right now, I am trying to piece together my essay, where once again it feels like a herculean task.  It's a notoriously touchy subject - how to prove that indeed Humbert was a predator and that he didn't show any true pity or understanding of a girl, or behaved appropriately.  So many people like the licentious side of what it represents i.e. underage sex, but they throughout the discourse, they fail to see the damage.  Once again, I have to suspend my point of view and actually be quite calculating with what I am about to write in this assignment.

* sigh * - wish I could've stayed in Glastonbury....

22:48
1,315 - now that doesn't seem a lot more than yesterday (less than 200 in fact), but I had to start from scratch again and suddenly, I was writing like a bard!!! Like - wow, wish every day could be like this.  I have to now use Kincaid tomorrow to profile his behaviors and why he fits the prototype perv, plus I think I will have to dig around the 'fase child' syndrome, where distance and objectification contribute to Humbert's stasis and that of the memory of his original love.

Jeez, if I could have a max output of 1,325 every day, then I would be done in three days. Onward tomorrow :-)

Comments

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, he did abuse by manipulation of whinings... cos she did just 'put up' with him as necessary, but she always put that on her list of 'owings'. He was just pathetic really, and thank goodness not a rough and brutal abuser.. those are perfectly horrible, but Humbert was more of a whiny pest really. He must have been dead boring!!! But she was not an 'innocent' in that little head of hers...she did remind me a lot of my sister! Knew which side of the bread was the butter!

I spose I might have been looking for/expecting the rather nastier sort of abuser... the beatings-up/raping nasty sort.

So maybe he wanted his 'mother' who wasn't there, to love him as his little baby mind remembered someone had - played with little willies or something?

Tell you what tho. he'd have driven me POTTY in a couple of days, useless eeejit! sporfle!