Daily dialogue — October 19, 2009

“What drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet, of every nymphet perhaps, this mixture in my Lolita of tender, dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity. I know it is madness to keep this journal, but it gives me a strange thrill to do so. And only a loving wife could decipher my microscopic script.”

 — Professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason), Lolita (1962), screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov, based on his novel

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