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was making a nuisance of himself by trying to push or pull"--
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there is that word play again coming back to us--
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"the swing board. He finally succeeded in getting himself knocked down by it and
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bawled loudly as he lay supine on the grass
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while his mother continued
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to smile gently at neither of her present children."
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And, if you skip over to 215, this image comes back of this
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mother: "All cars had disappeared except his station wagon.
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His pregnant young wife was now getting into it with her baby
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and the other more or less canceled child."
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So, here are at least three examples of canceled children,
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and you can use that phrase, I think, to characterize Lolita.