I love when he points out that Humbert Humbert is an unreliable narrator but he’s so charming in his writing that he makes you kinda like him, making the reader unreliable too. “Damn! Ain’t that some shit?”

One thing that comes to mind is that the world is leaving behind “lolita” from the book. The concept that a lolita is an alluring, young woman is what has remained behind in the mass psychology. Japan has a whole lolita fashion movement that is not aggressively sexual. It has definite roots in being young and…

That's so awful, please take a picture!!

Or more likely, they were trying to evoke the Japanese “Lolita” fashion style. Itself a modern take on Victorian fashion, hence the aesthetic of thi Or not. I mean it’s not like the word has taken on a new meaning the fashion world or anything. Also, let’s be real here. A lot of people have evoked that word without…

i work on palm beach island and there is a person driving around with a custom lily pulitzer jeep wrangler. it’s a BIT much

Lolita is like the “McDonald’s hot coffee” lady. So many people refer to them; so many people have no idea the actual story.

I have a poster of him on my wall! Whenever my (also redheaded) brother and I were bad, sorry, naughty, we got compared to him.

Was about to come here and write that in all caps.

Because you want it too right?...I mean of course you don’t, heh, I mean I don’t WANT it...I mean who would heh want that sectional..heh...HEY what’s that over there?

I want it, and the artwork behind it. They don’t look like “common people” furnishings, the kind which become ugly quickly after they’re all the rage, and then stay that way... whereas a higher quality piece from a different time, even if it’s not really fashionable again yet, can always be recognized for its…

Perfect orgy couch, it could fit like 20 people.

yup! I totally fell OUT over that damn couch! I have turbans and caftans and silk robes and mirabou slippers, I belong on THAT COUCH!!!

I would eat throughout the day in different sections and roll and crawl and eat and fart...

I audibly gasped and now my dogs are staring at me like something’s wrong.

that sensational sectional. that SENSATIONAL SECTIONAL. THAT SENSATIONAL sectional. THAT SENSATIONAL SECTIONAL.*

*Fixed it for you.

I would give all of my money for that sectional. Which makes it worth maybe $400. But I WOULD TRY.

I just dropped dead after seeing that sectional.

In my younger 20's I lived in a house with way too many people, we had many couches (even building stadium sofa seating to accommodate) but my favorite memory of that house was our sectional couch, which we called Sectional Healing.

dream couch

Actually, that was just the hair. Eventually it came in contact with the guy underneath it and now are bonded for life in symbiosis.