To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, papers, etc.
I’m currently on Chapter 3 Part 2 of Lolita (page 166 of the annotated edition). I have no idea why people say this book is pedophilia apologia, or why some say the main character is “sympathetic”. Humbert Humbert is not just a perv, he’s a psychopath as well.
besides the fact he’s funny and witty. As for the witting, is absolutely beautiful, so many references, wordplay and french quotes, you can tell how great Nabokov was by making such a great book with a such a delicate subject as this.
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My Disillusionment in Russia/My Further Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman. Goldman was a major anarchist figure
in burgerland, got deported to Russia, and saw the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution (she was there from 1920-1922). I'm about 3/4s of the way through but the title is apt-when she arrives she can't believe the Bolsheviks do any wrong, then starts
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at how they treat anarchists
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