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Lolita · 1962 — 第 2 / 30 章 · 4'20" · B2

Humbert Kills Quilty, Explained：last words

Humbert has come to kill Clare Quilty and makes him read a poem first. "Do you have any last words before you die, Quilty?" Quilty, drunk and unarmed, treats the whole thing as a bit of theatre, stalling with jokes until the shots finally come.

あらすじ

The final confrontation. Humbert Humbert arrives at Quilty's house with a gun and forces the drunk playwright to read aloud a poem that is really a death sentence. Quilty jokes, quotes back at him, and proposes they settle things like civilized people, but Humbert asks whether he wants to die standing or sitting.

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注目の表現

the deed to the ranchAdam-nakedbook learningthis sort of tragedy

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このシーンの表現

the deed to the ranch

posing a paper as a property deed

Handed the paper to read aloud, Quilty pretends it might be the deed to the ranch.

He waved the letter like it was the deed to the ranch.

このシーンの他の表現

  • Adam-naked

    naked as Adam

  • book learning

    book knowledge, often sneered at

  • this sort of tragedy

    this genre of tragedy, said with swagger

  • pieces of furniture

    people reduced to furniture

このシーンのメモ一覧

66 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B1a death sentence

a sentence of death; a doomed end

It's your death sentence.
文法 · B1never did none

double negative: A casual double negative intensifies the denial; standard English keeps one negative.

I never did none of that there book learning, you know.
表現 · B1take advantage of someone

exploit someone, take unfair advantage

Because you took advantage of a sinner
表現 · B1be ashamed of oneself

feel shame about one's own act

You should be ashamed of yourself, captain.
スラング · B1horn toad

old toad, a mocking insult — A joking insult between familiars; never in polite talk.

Before a federal law And all its stinging stars Tarnation! You old horn toad.
スラング · B1Tarnation

a folksy minced oath — A rustic, dated exclamation; playful rather than truly foul.

Before a federal law And all its stinging stars Tarnation! You old horn toad.
表現 · B1a bit + adjective

somewhat repetitive

Because you took advantage It's getting a bit repetitious, isn't it?
表現 · A2take something away

carry or remove it

Say, what you took it away for, mister? That was getting kind of smutty there. Heh.
スラング · B2smutty

obscene, racy — Describes racy content; avoid in formal settings.

Say, what you took it away for, mister? That was getting kind of smutty there. Heh.
表現 · B1someone's last words

final words before death

Do you have any last words before you die, Quilty?
文法 · B1before you die

time clause: A before-clause marks the deadline; present tense stands in for future.

Do you have any last words before you die, Quilty?
発音sort of

'Sort of' reduces to 'sorta' in quick speech.

This pistol-packing farce is becoming a sort of nuisance.
表現 · B1settle something

resolve or finish a matter

Why don't you and I sort of settle this like two civilized people...
発音put them

'Put them up' becomes 'put 'em up', swallowing 'them'.

...getting together and settling something? Instead of.... All right, put them up.
表現 · B1ought to do something

should, morally or practically

You ought to be more careful with that thing.
表現 · C1trifle with something

treat something far too lightly

Listen, captain, why don't you stop trifling with life and death?
表現 · B2dream something up

invent or imagine something

We could dream up some lyrics maybe. You and I dream them up together...
文法 · B1If you're trying to scare me

conditional clause: The if-clause sets the intent, and the main clause answers with the result.

If you're trying to scare me, you did a pretty swell job, all right.
スラング · B1swell

great, well done (dated) — Dated American slang; today it sounds playful or ironic.

If you're trying to scare me, you did a pretty swell job, all right.
表現 · B1black and blue

badly bruised

My leg will be black and blue tomorrow.
表現 · A2keep someone company

stay with someone so they are not alone

I've got some nice friends who could come and keep you company.
発音and keep

In 'come and keep', 'and' weakens to 'ən'.

I've got some nice friends who could come and keep you company.
表現 · A2look just like someone

resembles someone exactly

There's one guy who looks just like a bookcase.
表現 · B1how would you like something

a mock offer that may carry a threat

I could fix for you to attend executions. How would you like that?
表現 · B2in the know

having inside knowledge

You'd be the only guy in the know.

「Humbert Kills Quilty」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene pretends to be a duel and is really an execution with only one participant. Quilty has no gun and no way out, and he knows it: "I'm a playwright, you know. I know all about this sort of tragedy." His answer to the question of how he wants to die — "I want to die like a champion" — is both a joke and the closest thing to dignity he can manage. Humbert keeps the poem between them like a verdict, reading the charges for a crime he can never fully name, while Quilty keeps talking, offering furnishings, songs, executions, anything to stay alive. The comedy is that Quilty is still performing for an audience of one, and the horror is that the audience has come to shoot him.

Theme

RevengeHumbert's long hunt ends with Quilty cornered and shot; the whole scene is the settling of a private score, not a trial.
Dark humorQuilty jokes through his own murder, offering songs and furniture, and finds the gunman's farce a nuisance rather than a threat.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Quilty stalls a death sentence with joke after joke.
  • Fake illiteracy here is a survival tactic, not a fact.
  • The poetry talk lets a killer sound like a critic.

発音のポイント

  • sort of — 'Sort of' reduces to 'sorta' in quick speech.
  • put them — 'Put them up' becomes 'put 'em up', swallowing 'them'.
  • and keep — In 'come and keep', 'and' weakens to 'ən'.
Do you have any last words before you die, Quilty?

Humbert's formal, almost polite question before shooting: he treats the killing as an execution with a condemned man's final statement.

This pistol-packing farce is becoming a sort of nuisance.

Quilty's drunken verdict on the standoff — he calls the threat of death a tiresome comedy, which is exactly what enrages his executioner.

I want to die like a champion.

Asked to choose standing or sitting, Quilty answers with an absurd, theatrical boast instead, refusing to take the moment seriously.

Listen, captain, why don't you stop trifling with life and death?

Quilty lectures Humbert for playing with something as serious as life and death, while the gun stays pointed at him.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Humbert make Quilty read a poem before killing him?

The poem is the charge sheet. Its lines accuse Quilty of taking advantage of someone weaker, and Humbert wants him to hear the crimes aloud before he is shot.

Why does Quilty joke instead of trying to escape?

He is drunk, unarmed, and out of options. Joking is the only power left to him, and it also keeps Humbert talking, which is the closest thing to stalling.

What does 'the deed to the ranch' mean when Quilty says it?

It is a throwaway joke: handed a poem, Quilty pretends it might be a property document instead. He uses it to act unimpressed and unmoved by the threat.

Does Quilty know why Humbert has come?

He knows enough. He calls the visit a farce, mentions Humbert's drinking and his own sickness, and tries to bargain — but he never offers the one thing that might save him.

Who is Clare Quilty?

The playwright who took Dolores from Humbert and left her. Humbert has tracked him down, and this scene is the end of that hunt — the killing that closes the film.

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