Sunday, June 07, 2009

reading lolita in quakertown

What's making me uncomfortable about reading Lolita? Aside from, you know, sympathizing with and rooting for a pedophile?

Not being able to go a single freaking page without having to get my ass off the couch and type some word into dictionary.com.

Here's the latest:

cog⋅no⋅men

 


 [kog-noh-muhn] Show IPA
–noun, plural -no⋅mens, -nom⋅i⋅na

 [-nom-uh-nuh] Show IPA .
1.a surname.
2.any name, esp. a nickname.
3.the third and commonly the last name of a citizen of ancient Rome, indicating the person's house or family, as “Caesar” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.” Compare agnomen (def. 1).


Remember that one for next time, kids.
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  1. A guy who likes to listenJune 8, 2009 at 8:41 PM

    You are much more dedicated than I. I stopped looking up words ages ago. Guess you learn something new every day.

    I think it's interesting reading stories with anti-heroes. Or whatever the protagonist in the book is. You can learn a lot from how the darker characters think and act.

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  2. AmyJune 11, 2009 at 1:51 PM

    I think sympathizing with a deviant shows us that theres another side to every story and every person. Walking in someone else's shoes makes us much better people.
    And - I don't look up words. I just try to figure approximately what the author is saying by the way the word is used in context. If I still don't understand, I figure it really wasn't that important to begin with. Laziness, much?

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