I just thought about just that process for a second adolescence and I got real grossed out like just as you just said figuring out things about our bodies I just threw up a little bit. That is going to be the hardest thing about having kids if I ever have them is that I know that I did this stuff. We're not even dads. Where we just worry about hypothetical children doing awful things. Not even awful things. Natural things. Normal things. Things that they are going to do. You can still say natural and normal and still say that those things are awful. It depends on your perspective I guess. So okay so he had a young love. Let's get a young love
Usually books try to make you root for the protagonist. Even if he or she is flawed in some crucial way, most stories try to make you feel something for the person whose mind you're inhabiting. That is not the case in Vladmir Nabokov's Lolita.
This week we share with you an uncomfortable discussion about how it feels to read a book told from the perspective of an unrepentant pedophile—how do you feel about him? How do we feel about him? How does he feel about him? The difficult subject matter is just one of the things that has earned Lolita its place in the literary canon.
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