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Believe me when I say that this one somehow manages to surpass Lolita in the depth of its descriptive lasciviousness/lewdness….also perhaps I’m reading into it too literally to overlook certain aspects of the incredibly fraught relationship at the novel’s center but praying that the allegorical significance becomes more apparent soon

"But this," exclaimed Ada, "is certain, this is reality, this is pure fact-this forest, this moss, your hand, the ladybird on my leg, this cannot be taken away, can it? (it will, it was).
This has all come together here, no matter how the paths twisted, and fooled each other, and got fouled up: they inevitably met here!" P. 157