395 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (A Best of HOL Episode)
The History of Literature
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Lolida, and the Politics of Themselves
L lolida was a singular individual. And so i think he resented any kind of gathering up of his urges or impulses into the kind of gross manoeuvres that freud a trucked in. I think he was dispositionally alurgic to such things as that. He probably knew that a lot of readers of lolida were going to try to trace it back to his childhood, trying to examine the author in a way that he probably objected to and was trying to protect against. So he is very deeply rooted.
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