Wow. That was my first reaction. I read it again and had the
same reaction. Wow. The post you are responding to was my
second saying as clearly as I can that we find humor in
different ways and in different places and there is no
purpose in discussing it further. If I had any doubts about
that you've removed them. We are headed in different
directions but sail on, brother.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
> Okay, but there's a lot more humor in
Thompson's
> Recoil, when Pat has to get that corpse out of
the
> elevator, or in Highsmith's Ripley Underground
when
> Ripley is trying to get the corpse out of his
wine
> cellar in the wheelbarrow and it keeps falling
over,
> than there is anywhere in Lolita. Lolita is
a
> psychological study of one type of child
> molester...and the child he molests, for in
Lolita,
> the child is NOT innocent. Nabokov makes Humbert
a
> tragic but not detestable figure. Clair Quilty is
much
> easier to hate than Humbert is. One can even relate
in
> some ways to Humbert's problem. In the wide
world
> there is some crazy denial that children don't
think
> about sex until they're 16 or so. Anyone's
who's
> actually lived life knows children experiment with
sex
> much much younger than that. That adults have
a
> responsibility to control their behavior with
children
> is the given. That some adults cannot and why, is
the
> subject of the novel. I'm sure there were passages
in
> Lolita that made me smile, but I would not
catagorize
> Lolita as a "very funny" novel. Any more than the
life
> of Paul Shanley was a very funny life.
>
> Patrick King
>
> --- Richard Moore <moorich@...>
wrote:
>
> > --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
> > <abrasax93@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Could you possibly quote some of the
especially
> > > hillarious passages you recall so I can
understand
> > at
> > > least what you mean?
> >
> > If you are expecting me to quote a
few
> > knee-slappers, that isn't going
> > to happen. Dissecting humor is a grim task
that
> > kills the object of
> > the examination and it is the sort of
academic
> > exercise that I find
> > tedious in the extreme. As I said before, I
respect
> > your opinion but
> > we clearly find humor at times in different
ways and
> > in different
> > places.
> >
> > Richard Moore
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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