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Incest
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An excellent novella by 'a moral threat to prostitutes' about sophistry, love, lust and death.
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Reading Progress
July 2, 2020
– Shelved as:
to-read
July 2, 2020
– Shelved
January 2, 2021
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Started Reading
January 3, 2021
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2.68%
"An excellent introduction by the translator, Andrew Brown, from 2003."
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January 3, 2021
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2.68%
"The introduction takes Nabokov's Lolita and de Sade's Incest in a careful balance, detailing the former's influence for writing his Humbert Humbert character, as well as this, some borrowed and altered prose and how fragments of the story were weaved through the latter's story are discussed alongside the political and societal taboo itself in the form of laws, cultures and custom."
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January 3, 2021
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7.14%
""...devoutness is a weakness that affects particular ages and particular states of health.""
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January 3, 2021
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10.71%
"A careful balance of attention, love, restriction and distance thus is needed or a dangerous game may it be that you are inadvertently playing (or masterfully conniving) with your own flesh and blood: "'... and thus deprives me of the happiness of spending my life with you... I see it all: you prefer her to your own Eugénie. For my part, I will never love anyone or anything that steals your heart away from me.'""
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12
January 3, 2021
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11.61%
""'... You will always be my favourite, Eugénie; you will be the angel and the light of my life, the fire of my soul, my reason for living.'""
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13
January 3, 2021
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16.96%
""'So should we let the human race die out?'
'We might as well: a plant that produces nothing but poison cannot be pulled up too soon.'""
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19
'We might as well: a plant that produces nothing but poison cannot be pulled up too soon.'""
January 3, 2021
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25.89%
"It's possible that this was also the source for creating the seed of which was planted and became King, Queen, Knave. Such an influence; exceptional poetical and lyrical joyous reading. And centuries old... 👌"
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January 3, 2021
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25.89%
""And at this point, the cunning Valmont averted his eyes, with the air of a man who has grasped what is happening... groans at it... and is afraid to explain his thoughts."
😎"
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😎"
January 3, 2021
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29.46%
"Is that a melodramatic drum-beat I hear, inducing shock and awe to the masses, aka, the EastEnders TV show introduction music."
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January 4, 2021
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36.61%
"I sense a little reversed wrath boiling...
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned", as is said."
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"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned", as is said."
January 4, 2021
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37.5%
"What a speech!
I pray to the heavens that, should a film exist, an adaptation of this novella, that Dame Helen Mirren is playing Mme de Franval..."
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I pray to the heavens that, should a film exist, an adaptation of this novella, that Dame Helen Mirren is playing Mme de Franval..."
January 4, 2021
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41.07%
""'... Does a Hottentot tremble at what frightens a Frenchman? And does a Frenchman not do every day things that would incur punishment in Japan? No, Monsieur, no, there is nothing real in the world, nothing which merits praise or blame, nothing worthy of being rewarded or punished, nothing which, though it is unjust here, is not legitimate five hundred leagues away - no real evil, in a word, and no constant good.'""
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46
January 4, 2021
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43.75%
""... I did not hide the world from her, I showed her at length the roses of marriage as well as the thorns that are found in it.""
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49
January 4, 2021
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51.79%
"I'm trying to remember which early Nabokov novel it was, or maybe it was Lolita? "Everything has been arranged to satisfy Valmont; and his private interview lasted more than an hour in Eugénie's own apartment." There was a scene were Nabokov's protagonist spent some time with a little French (whore) girl..."
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January 5, 2021
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58.04%
"Shared route
From Versailles to Alsace via A4.
5 hr 32 min (556Â km)
5 hr 32 min in current traffic
1. Head east
2. Turn left towards Avenue de Paris
3. Turn right onto Avenue de Paris
4. Turn right onto Rue des États Généraux
5. Continue straight onto Rue des Chantiers
6. Keep left, follow signs for A86/A13/A14/Nanterre
7. Merge onto N12
8. Use the left 3 lanes to take the A86 exit towards A10/A6/Lyon/Évry/Pari..."
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From Versailles to Alsace via A4.
5 hr 32 min (556Â km)
5 hr 32 min in current traffic
1. Head east
2. Turn left towards Avenue de Paris
3. Turn right onto Avenue de Paris
4. Turn right onto Rue des États Généraux
5. Continue straight onto Rue des Chantiers
6. Keep left, follow signs for A86/A13/A14/Nanterre
7. Merge onto N12
8. Use the left 3 lanes to take the A86 exit towards A10/A6/Lyon/Évry/Pari..."
January 5, 2021
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59.82%
"We've gone from exquisite use of language in such scenes to teeth-sucking, finger-clicking, lip-pouting, hip-posing, "Oh no you didn't" stances in the space of a few hundred years..."
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January 5, 2021
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66.96%
"It's like the instilling or maturing of a deep-rooted and unknowing Electra complex...
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75
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January 5, 2021
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Finished Reading
