To Amanda

I don't think that i have grasped the reasoning for a pedophile, but maybe:
Nabokov need a canvas for contrast. He needs a weathered, well-read, witty narrator to tell an ugly story. it is however -most importantly- a beautiful story about an ugly thing with beautiful characters in an often ugly scene painted most beautifully.
i guess

or maybe Nabokov was just so sure of himself -Vivian Bloodmark?- that he knew he was so good and badass, he just knew he could make even a monster into a masterpiece