description: a tweet from @tywrent that reads, “‘the mail person came!’
‘omg did they bring my package?!’– this is you, using the singular form of ‘they.’ every day. it’s nothing new.”
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Lolita is not about love, because love is always mutual; Lolita is about obsession, which is never, ever love, and Nabokov himself was so disappointed that people did not understand this and take away the right message… For how could anyone call this feeding frenzy of selfishness, devouring, and destruction “love”?
In her preface to LOLITA, Mary Gaitskill reflects on a review by Vanity Fair’s Gregor von Rezzori in which he calls the novel: “The only convincing love story of the century” (via funeral)
ugh 