... of his sins. Humbert's main defensive argument is that he suffers from psychological pedophilia as a result of losing his childhood sweetheart, Annabel Leigh, to typhus and not that he is a terrible person. Humbert says that her death made it impossible to love again. "I ... also know that the shock on Annabel's death consolidated the frustration of that nightmare summer, made of it a permanent obstacle to any further romance" (Nabakov 14; bk. 1, ... childhood love on the beach which damaged his psyche so severely. "I am convinced, however, that in a certain magic and fateful way Lolit...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the most socially unacceptable obsession of all: paedophilia. Humbert's abysmal obsession with "nymphets" had begun just after his first true love Annabel had passed away. And to Humbert, Lolita was a reincarnation of Annabel. Humbert says "I see Annabel in such general terms as: 'honey-coloured skin', 'thin arms', 'brown bobbed hair', 'long lashes', 'big bright mouth ... hold him at a far enough distant to see him for the man he truly is. "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps ...

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