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not that I realized it then,
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she would have had on top of her perfect form the will to win
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and would have become a real girl champion."
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He reads the non-utilitarian quality of her form as the evidence of her broken nature.
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But I would like to suggest that it's precisely that non-utilitarian quality
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that is the mark of her wholeness in a certain way.
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If aesthetic bliss is what Nabokov confesses is his ultimate aim for art
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in the essay On a Book Entitled Lolita,
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something like that is
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what Lolita gives us in her perfect tennis form without the will to win:
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the frankness, beauty, kindness, lack of deception.
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And, in that sense, it is also a version of play,