wait, what do you mean that this makes Anita sound like the female equivalent of Humbert Humbert? Yuup. Justification, justification, empty justification. And at least with Humbert Humbert, there was the fun/challenge for the reader of seeing through his bullshit, despite its poetical beauty, and remembering that THIS IS A CHILD HE IS TALKING ABOUT and that all his claims of Lo being a huge whore who is asking for it are firstly right out the rape apologist handbook, secondly probably just his own delusions, and thirdly what aren't delusions are actually pretty innocent average teen-girl behaviors OR the behavioral results of his abusing her. Because Nabokov was a fucking MASTER of the unreliable narrator, as shown in this and in other novels as well, whereas LKH is not only not half the writer he was, she also seems to have no idea that her narrator is completely revolting. I will forever hold Humbert Humbert up as suceeding where Anita fails in making a brilliant read with a protagonist who is a truly awful person. SORRY FOR THE RANT I JUST REALLY LOVE NABOKOV AND LOLITA IS MY FAVE
Monica spoke the truth when she said, “Funny how it’s never your fault, Anita.” AMEN
Uh, no, that just makes it worse. Because a lot of people who defend extreme May-December relationships like this often use the excuse that “the heart wants who it wants” and sometimes people just fall in love with a certain person, and the older person really does love the younger person, Oh yeah, I know that's how it is normally. But the way Anita phrased it, and in the context, it really did sound like her saying "well if I'm not in love with him it's okay" bizarre as that is. I don't understand either, but that's what I got from her tone.
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Yuup. Justification, justification, empty justification. And at least with Humbert Humbert, there was the fun/challenge for the reader of seeing through his bullshit, despite its poetical beauty, and remembering that THIS IS A CHILD HE IS TALKING ABOUT and that all his claims of Lo being a huge whore who is asking for it are firstly right out the rape apologist handbook, secondly probably just his own delusions, and thirdly what aren't delusions are actually pretty innocent average teen-girl behaviors OR the behavioral results of his abusing her. Because Nabokov was a fucking MASTER of the unreliable narrator, as shown in this and in other novels as well, whereas LKH is not only not half the writer he was, she also seems to have no idea that her narrator is completely revolting. I will forever hold Humbert Humbert up as suceeding where Anita fails in making a brilliant read with a protagonist who is a truly awful person. SORRY FOR THE RANT I JUST REALLY LOVE NABOKOV AND LOLITA IS MY FAVE
Monica spoke the truth when she said, “Funny how it’s never your fault, Anita.”
AMEN
Uh, no, that just makes it worse. Because a lot of people who defend extreme May-December relationships like this often use the excuse that “the heart wants who it wants” and sometimes people just fall in love with a certain person, and the older person really does love the younger person,
Oh yeah, I know that's how it is normally. But the way Anita phrased it, and in the context, it really did sound like her saying "well if I'm not in love with him it's okay" bizarre as that is. I don't understand either, but that's what I got from her tone.