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Seems to be the beginning of the second paragraph of the book..:
Which in the book continues with..;
That novel is so beautifully written that I wish it was about something completely different so I don't feel dirty while reading it.
English wasn't even Nabokov's first language! That's insane!
The line immediately preceding this one is beautiful:
I appreciate others ability to remain impartial on any given topic.
That being said, the context of pedophilia definitely makes this disgusting.
Which suggests Epstein never actually read the novel to completion.
Lol
...ita
Apparently the POS even had an annotated version and still didn't understand the book!
Edit: The annotated version, the one that he had, is very informative.
I've read the novel. Humbert is a pathetic old man who destroys Lolita's life for a fling on the road. The girl goes from a charmed upper middle class life before the family meets Humbert to the death of her mother, debasement and abuse at the hands of Humbert, and finally poverty, poor education, and bearing children out of wedlock. Lolita's life is ruined in the aftermath, much like Epstein's real victims. Nabokov did not write a sympathetic treatment of child abuse in Lolita, nor is Humbert a hero in the story.