"Her kiss, to my delirious embarrassment, had some rather comical refinements of flutter and probe which made me conclude she had been coached at an early age by a little Lesbian." -p. 133
When Humbert and Lolita are finally reunited, it's shocking to learn that Lolita was never the innocent little girl that I had imagined. From the mental image that Humbert had conceived of her before, I believed that Lolita was a charming, young, innocent girl whose purity needed to be preserved, lest Humbert steals it from her. Yet, upon her return from camp, Lolita is actually the one who makes the first initial move on Humbert. Furthermore; Lolita is even more experienced than Humbert, and even coaches him. After learning that Lolita has been a promiscuous child while she has been away at camp, it makes me wonder if Humbert had been crazy all along. It seems almost conceivable that when he imagined that Lolita took a liking to him, it could have actually been true. All of Humbert's crazy fantasies before seem not so crazy anymore.
Or are maybe Lolita and Humbert both crazy? And if so, did Lolita notice Humbert's previous sexual encounters with her?
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