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Ep 093 - Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

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The Greek Argument

He invokes the Greek relationship between okay adults and children like that modern society is kind of imposed all these limitations. I feel like that's kind of the at least here at the beginning that's like the core excuse that he cites. He comes across someone who reminds him of that person and then any other inappropriateness is irrelevant because of his desire for that person. She's got a bunch of different nicknames like Lola Lola it's just kind of a combination of all those things. Part of the part of the wordplay throughout the book is like him taking her real name like and and different nicknames of hers like Dolly’s another one to vary up the

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