Vladimir Nabokov says to turn on red

on the drive to school today i started thinking about a couple things:

1. can any of us actually turn on red?

that was a JOKE. i know we can turn on red. in fact, i know we can do anything on red. text, continue forward, everything. the real question is what you're going to tell the family you murdered

what? you literally just murdered them. 

 i know, i know. you really wanted to get to Carrabba's in time for lunch. 

speaking of what do you usually order lol i know people rly hate the calamari which is weird since half the people there are ocean mammals. 

right? parking's always a hassle. 

has anyone ever told you blue's your color? sorry lol i just had to let you know

haha yeah i've been trying out some foreign face masks lately thanks for noticing. 

no yeah the police are so loopy sometimes! you'd think all the blood and screaming would forage some sort of reaction. 

 if you're not doing anything Friday i have a court hearing in the morning for-- YES this exact situation! family of 6, you know how it goes. 

 uh i think the kid is asking for her albuterol. 

 i know, asthma's lame.

how can you still not see them? they're lying right over there by the big wolf. 

oh, sure, now you can see them enough to step on the phone they were reaching for. now look at what you've gotten us into.

...given the gravity of the situation, i'm not sure what's appropriate. an all inclusive trip to Sandals? an Olive Garden gift card? i guess you could do jail time, but we all have work in the morning. they'll just have to understand.

2. okay, this one's really important

 i was considering saying something important here.

3. when white men were the most common readers and writers, what did that mean for the literary community?

this one is truly moderately concerning. what was their version of present day airport novels? the weird romance ones? you know what im talking about. would they stand around the well and converse about what a hunk Christoph Humphrey was when he wielded a sword to save you, the reader? you, the male reader? if it came down to female character to fall in love with, lets face it, they are more often than not extremely one dimensional. with a couple exceptions of course, including Elizabeth Bennet... wait that was written by Jane Austen, a woman... perhaps Jo March... nope she was also written by a woman... granted, im sure there are some respectable females written as non peripheral characters in books before the 19th century. but until we dive into some good old fashioned research, we have Lolita, and the message within Dolores being the book's namesake and, of course, symbolically reappearing as a disheveled housewife of sorts in the last few pages. thank goodness we do, because I was starting to feel a little too independent around here! perhaps the drawers need some dusting and the kitchen looks a little--...

the consensus i've reached, without any sort of deliberation, is that airport novels were very underground and sold by the likes of moonshine dealers. that, or the royals were really reading up a storm of broody and pecked out Magic Mikes. if these books were manufactured all the way back in medieval times it would explain a lot. starting with the book covers. jesters and photoshop are truly a combination that works.

3b. italics are very sultry

 i think this is really important. just take a look:

person a: calamari

person b: calamari

come on. ur completely seduced. 

- emogirl633 

oh, and here's what i was listening to this whole time:

I Want to Be Buried in Your Backyard - Nightmare Of You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1HctfS-H0M

Time We Had - The Mother Hips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBg5Nw8YsFc

 

***hey, before i go: i think "Lolita" is a really great book in terms of its writing quality and portrayal of an unreliable narrator. it's one of the first classics i ever read and therefore one of my favorites. i do also know of it's heavy set criticism, based on its heavy subject matter and portrayal of pedophilia, child fetishizing, grooming, kidnapping, statutory rape, etc. i agree with all of the criticism. i am no devils advocate. a hard to read book used by people with pedophilloic tendencies to get off should not have a devil's advocate. no matter the status the book undeniably holds among the literary community, it is by no means without questionability. the part in which Humbert finds Dolores after she ran away is pertinent to the development of Humbert's character and was a very strong depiction of child fetishization. i do understand the symbolism of that and of the whole book. while disgusting from a rational perspective, that was the character developed. my point in saying Dolores was discovered a shell of herself in the apartment Humbert finds her in works with the grueling change of perspective Humbert has. firstly, she has to be described the way she is way because this book is fully from Humbert's perspective. secondly, it staples the unmistakable dread the reader feels after reading an entire book of abuse toward Lolita just to reach an ending in which she is the one who has lost, with Humbert almost shrugging off his obsession with an otherwise still young Lolita. this is what i mean when i say the ending of Lolita portrayed Dolores as powerless, and the reasoning for the decision. it is 100% more profound than just a "disheveled housewife" seeing an old lover. Humbert is a sick individual and that was the point of the ending. that and the emotional toll the rest of the hundreds of pages took on the characters and the reader alike. please take the book as more of a vessel into a twisted mind than a work of a genius with a relatable and profound view on the world. ***