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PaperclipPerfector  5mo ago (text post)   3400 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 7, 2024

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The quote is from a Russian-American.

The Nabokov quote is, but the Houllebecq quote is not. I was using Humbert Humbert's monologue as a companion to Houllebecq thirsting after illegally young people.

I thought that would be obvious without attribution, but many of you guys haven't read Lolita and it shows.

It's not obvious at all to me that Houllebecq was writing about the illegally young, or how quoting another author demonstrates that, or indeed how it demonstrates anything other than that it is, in fact, possible to write about pedophilia without being a pedophile yourself.

Who's getting jailed for hitting on twenty year olds?

What fourteen year olds are stumbling home from house parties at 5am in the morning?

The ones you get jailed for trying to bone, obviously.

The cool ones obviously. (I wasn't stumbling, but I did fall out my GF's window at 4am once and woke her dad up)

Sounds outside the scope of the Houllebecq quote to me!

"I was 30 at the time" would put it right back in scope, but my reputation's probably already bad enough

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