tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37832905.post1133457876766251537..comments2023-05-12T08:53:29.297-05:00Comments on The Time It Takes to Blog: The Time It Takes to Blog recycle-o-maticpausehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10935698832634895667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37832905.post-89299352975324022502010-03-10T13:35:40.639-06:002010-03-10T13:35:40.639-06:00This is a beautifully honest and insightful essay....This is a beautifully honest and insightful essay. I agree with your thoughts on Lolita as the sexual aggressor. She’s not the aggressor. Lolita is a child with a child’s mind that’s not developed the consciousness to fully understand the repercussion of what she’s doing. Age and time change the intent and motivation of people. <br /><br />You point out that Lolita being written from Humbert’s perspective is what allows the reader more sympathy for him and maybe less sympathy for Lolita. This point of view is what makes Lolita as brilliant a novel as it is salacious—some pundits would like readers to believe it’s too salacious. Your essay concisely proves those pundits wrong. Therefore it’s just a brilliant novel. <br /><br />I too have always felt the novel was Lolita’s story. And, like you, I appreciate the humor in Nabokov’s writing. I was inspired by Lolita when I wrote Exposed and obsessed with how the characters in Lolita consistently gravitate to grey areas of pedophilia where no one is the devil and no one is an angel. How honest is anything outside the grey areas of living? The grey areas make distinguishing right from wrong and good from bad complicated for all well written character’s and by God[dess] isn’t that how most writers worth their weight in salt aspire to write? <br /><br />Great work, Margaret. <br /><br />Have you ever read screenplay or seen the movie Hound Dog? I think you would appreciate it as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com