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"Lolita's" bad rap
“What everyone doesn't realize is that Nabokov's book is a highly moral work -- all of the guilty are punished at the end, even Lolita herself, the ostensible "innocent." Getting off on a copy of Lolita requires hard work -- there are no coarse words in the book and the sex scenes are explicit only in the sense that Nabokov has perfect command of language and understands the sensual possibilities of rubbing noun against verb.”
-- From an essay by Philip Martin published in Nerve on the Aug. 2 U.S. premier of the latest film version of Vladmir Nabokov's "Lolita." The cable channel Showtime was the only U.S. distributor willing to show the film, which received rave reviews in Europe.

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		`Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y` "Lolita's" bad rap “What everyone doesn't realize is that Nabokov's book is a highly moral work -- all of the guilty are punished at the end, even Lolita herself, the ostensible "innocent." Getting off on a copy of Lolita requires hard work -- there are no coarse words in the book and the sex scenes are explicit only in the sense that Nabokov has perfect command of language and understands the sensual possibilities of rubbing noun against verb.” -- From an essay by Philip Martin published in Nerve on the Aug. 2 U.S. premier of the latest film version of Vladmir Nabokov's "Lolita." The cable channel Showtime was the only U.S. distributor willing to show the film, which received rave reviews in Europe.