Okay this isn’t really a diss track but bear with me. It’s just kind of a rant about Humbert. But if I were musically talented I would totally make a diss track about him.
For reference, I’m 24. I’m rereading Lolita for the first time since eighth grade. I feel like I appreciate and am able to grasp the nuances of it a lot more thoroughly, especially since I’m a CSA survivor.
As a kid, I grasped how creepy he was but not how fucking rizzless and corny he is. As an adult woman, I not only fully grasp how creepy he is, I also grasp how lame he is. Like who the fuck just sprinkles random French into sentences like that? He’s all like “oui oui i am Humbert Humbert, the humble scholar. The innkeeper and his wife are fat and disgusting and I fear they may detect my predilection for le jeune fille, hon hon.” He’s the worst kind of nerd too. He probably calls sports “sportsball.”
On a slightly more serious note, I don’t think that he “loves” Dolores at all, no matter how loudly he insists. He doesn’t even *like* her. He calls her a “disgustingly conventional little girl” and doesn’t even consider how she may be emotionally impacted by the kidnapping/her mother’s death. He doesn’t consider any of her feelings at all unless he’s bargaining for sexual favors with her. He’s not capable of love because of how misanthropic he is, and he is only concerned with Dolores insofar as she makes peepee go hard.
I think Nabokov does a great job painting a portrait of a monster who is also a lame loser.
by spergilicious