What the fuck??? However, I shall not bore my learned readers

Is anime inspired by Nabokov or was Nabokov inspired by anime, is the question.

She's a kid and the realm of sex is unknown to her, so she has "sex" with him in a sort of childish way, half-serious in the clumsy way that a kid takes something seriously, half-playful because she doesn't understand the adult gravity of what she's doing. He associates that childishness with the "magic" of nymphs that he loves, and that adult women and mundane adult sex are incapable of.

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Humbert Humbert is making excuses. What justifies Lolita's great deal of fluff is the narrator's superficiality. Most of what he thinks and says are either excuses or partially accurate musings because he is void of anything other than shallow passion.

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It's Lolita naively going about sex, but seen from Humbert's delusional and perverted gaze. She doesn't know how to properly perform these acts; something he is not in the least displeased about, as what he wants is not a sexual relationship, in the sense of an exchange as it's understood by adults, much less a companion competent and trained in pleasing men, instead he's more concerned with the idea itself of the defiling the child. Carnal pleasure is secondary; the compulsion which drives him is to possess nymphs such as his childhood love, and, really, isn't this whole ordeal just an attempt at tying that loose end?

It's a passage which shows that Humbert's desire is not just lust, it's first and foremost an obsession, almost an ethical principle that guides his life. This is seen in other passages, like when he ejaculates supposedly without Dolores realizing, and he's proud of himself as if he had realized a goal, accomplished his mission. It's not the same as the akratic who succumbs to his vice and regrets, for Humbert fucking little girls is an end in itself.