❝ Monologues · 6 lines · C1

The wedding was a quiet affair...

Humbert's aside · Lolita (1962)

 

The wedding was a quiet affair...

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...and when called upon to enjoy my promotion from lodger to lover...

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Why it's worth practising

It fuses a quiet wedding and a dagger into one wry confession of vanity and guilt.

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