Second Vintage International Edition, June 1997. Cover Design by John Gall
BOOKS READ 28: LOLITA BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Humbert Humbert.
Hum Hum.
Hummity Hum Hum.
You know when something (relationships-wise) just feels so completely wrong and almost disgusts you at times, that instead of just being completely repelled and running as far away as you can, you get even closer to it? You accept it, completely embrace it. You suspend disbelief and it starts to kind of feel a bit like falling in love, do you know what I mean? You dismiss your previous notions and it feels good to do that and to embrace something new. Sometimes it is true that opposites attract. How…nice?
But speaking from some (albeit really brief) experience:
Run.
At the first sign of this ever happening.
You’ll get closer to the thing that you really wanted in the end anyways.
