At the end of chapter 31, Humbert learns about Lolita 's (somewhat prolongued) affair with Charlie Holmes (13) at Camp Q, and concludes:
Did Humbert meet his match in Dolores Haze?Sensitive gentlewomen of the jury, I was not even her first lover.
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Did Humbert meet his match in Dolores Haze?Sensitive gentlewomen of the jury, I was not even her first lover.
Olphelia, this was actually from Part 1, chapter 31 rather than part two.Lolita, part 2, chapters 30-36
At the end of chapter 31, Humbert learns about Lolita 's (somewhat prolongued) affair with Charlie Holmes (13) at Camp Q, and concludes:
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Sensitive gentlewomen of the jury, I was not even her first lover.
The whole scene where Humbert is going to kill Quilty is quite humorous. He cannot get Quilty to take it seriously, or even really remember who Dolly was at first, and when he does he claims that he rescued her from a beastly pervert (true).Alas, I was unable to transcend the simple human fact that whatever spiritual solace I might find, whatever lithophanic eternities might be provided for me, nothing could make my Lolita forget the foul lust I had inflicted upon her.
A few lines from the 'sentence' Humbert has given to Quilty and has Quilty read before he shoots him. Does Humbert believe that he could have really had a life with Dolly? Also, interesting that he refers to this as Quilty's sentence, yet in the next chapter as he awaits his trial Humbert claims to not believe in capital punishment, for himself that is.Because you cheated me of my redemption................because of all you did, because of all I did not, you have to die
Is this why he killed Quilty? He was already the lowest of low by his 'rape' of Dolly, for her broken life, so murder put in a place he already felt he was. Humbert, in thinking of what his self-sentence would be, gives 35 years for rape and throws out the other charges.
The publication of his confession, or memoir, is supposed to be held off until Dolly is dead. This beastly pervert, this selfish swine, finally seems to really love her as he has claimed to for so long in the book, or at least a kind of love that is about caring about someone else's pain, someone else's feelings rather than just posessing them selfishly.