To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, papers, etc.
I started Lolita this week, I’m currently on page 61. I have no idea why some people believe this is a p-do apologia, it took me only 10 pages to feel completely disgusted by Humbert Humbert, especially when he started talking about his “nymphets” 
. But as with Charles Kinbote, I have to say Humbert is a super funny narrator, the way he trashes Mrs Haze at every opportunity, so bitchy and so manipulative lmao, which makes him much scarier than Kinbote, who was unmistakably a schizo to everyone around him.
Sometimes I can’t believe Nabokov was Russian, his dominion over the English Language is quite impressive, even if he grew up in a trilingual environment, typical of the Russian aristocracy.
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Being fat means I get significantly less sexual harassment than if I were thin. Fat people are harder to roofie and haul out of a public place. You'd need, like, 6 people to get my dead weight out the door, someone will for sure notice that and ask questions. Fat people are harder to kidnap. Staying fat means I don't have to worry about any of that.
And for all of you talking about heart disease (which I don't have) and all the other, “BuT yOu'Ll DiE sOoNeR.” First off, I don't have retirement, I have student loan debt instead, nor do I own a house or have kids. Already did the math and I can't financially afford to exist much past the age of 65. Also, have you seen the effects of climate change??? Shit's about to get dystopian bad over the next few decades, why tf would I wanna be around for that??
So imma eat the food that tastes good and if you have a problem with that, that's fine cause I wasn't planning on sharing it with you anyway 😂
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