Daniel Lomax’s Reviews > Lolita > Status Update

Rereading because Rachel Johnson has made this book, again, centre of a controversy. I missed the dazzling subtlety of Nabokov's comic delivery last time around:

"Rope-skipping, hopscotch. That old woman in black who sat down next to me on my bench, on my rack of joy (a nymphet was groping under me for a lost marble) and asked if I had stomachache, the insolent hag."