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The threat to children in the novel multiplies.
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It is not just Lolita who is threatened, but all sorts of children.
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So, let's begin with another of those scenes on 213 that Nabokov points out to us,
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the Kasbeam barber.
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Why did it take him a month to come up with the Kasbeam barber?
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What's going on in this tiny snippet that's so important?
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So here it is.
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In Kasbeam,
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a very old barber gave me a very mediocre haircut.
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He babbled of a baseball-playing son of his,
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and at every explodent spat into my neck,
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and every now and then wiped his glasses on my sheet wrap,