Word: asshe
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...really did make him a bit of an assh...
...Well, I wouldn't say an assh---. Isn't that a bit lacking in historical imagination? He's an assh--- when judged by enlightened prosperous 21st century American mores. But he has a few excuses. Like the Second World...
...Yeah, except Humbert is arch, as well as being an assh---. Nabokov takes it one step further. I mean, the sexual bribes chapter, quite late on, begins with the sentence, "I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita's morals." That compounds the cruelty, because he's using it as the butt of his wit. So he's really complicatedly awful. It all works absolutely brilliantly. But my character's a bit more straightforward than that...