class discovery

I think at every page in Lolita I have had discoveries. If I was to look closely enough I’d see one in every sentence. Pawing through my book I’ve found one that I’d like to talk about in class tomorrow because it just really stuck with me after reading and I’m still a little bit bothered I should say by the passage because I think it would yield a lot deeper if I put more time into it. Its on page 192.

“One of the latticed squares in the small cobwebby casement window at the turn of the staircase was glazed with ruby, and that raw wound among the unstained rectangles and its asymmetrical position-a knight’s move from the top-always strangely disturbed me.”

This passage strangely disturbed me but I started to read it and think about it and some things began to make sense. Most importantly I believe the knight’s move…and L. nuffsaid. But not just an L a ruby L, Ruby as in Lolita’s lipstick, the Lipstick marks that marked their maps. Maps which CLarie QuiLty used to knight-in –shining-armor away Lolita. In fact this passage comes just ( a knights move) before Quilty is really a figure. This moment is just when Lolita begins to fall out of love with Humbert. I’m not quite on top of it but its starting to make sense to me, I feel that this has to be significant.