The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
<p>ul 08, 2011 09:20 AM
 
After Humbert marries Charlotte, she demands a recounting of his former women.
"She showed a fierce insatiable curiosity" (Nabokov 75). 
He conjures up and elaborates on a highly inventive catalogue of his women:
"A long series of mistresses for Charlotte's morbid delectation . . . 
my glib compositions 
 
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